Aki-Essays: Eiken Topic (2-22-09)

Today, developed countries sometimes discuss how to ease poverty in developing ones. In history, however, successful economies have likely won their present statuses by unilaterally putting imposition on untouched lands and local people. Unfortunately, the respect for the developing countries hasn’t improved completely. Being retrospective, the haves should take the lead in making the situation better. This essay will pinpoint some major problems and give guidance.

First, the idea of fair trade is enforced only sparsely across developed countries. While workers sell intrinsic products such as lumber or coffee beans, their compensations are below minimum levels, though retail prices are stable. With fair trade put in practice, major corporations should be able to promise minimum wages.

Second, when developed countries look at their own financial divides, there seems not to be a narrative of having successfully narrowed economic gaps. Thus so far there is no persuasive conviction as to helping out needies, lacking the demonstration at an individual level, when there should be that.

Third, while technological advancement has been rapidly piecing the world together, each national government should secure the filtering down of money from the highest income group. In developing countries in particular, to achieve this effect, smoother social mobility and communication across classes and genders with an impartial election system is essential. In reality, however, national governments often appear to behave monopolistically, autocratically, and violently. Unrest is not a condition that leads to supplying people. Each government should rethink its own behavior.

After all, many from the developed countries contend with poverty overseas. Feeling responsible as not only a representative of the richer side but also the same human being must be the driver for actions.