Include everyone in globalization!Vivian Choy, Economic Expert
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CartoonstockThis cartoon shows a man of just skin and bones being chained to the globe and he looks like he is being stretched. This is the cartoonist’s portrayal of globalization, whereby he represents the poor that is being exploited and bound to globalization, and it is not of his own free will but rather he is forced to be part of the globalization process. Globalization has led to the people living in poverty being even more marginalized from the rest of the world instead of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor. Not only has the poverty rate been increased, globalization has also resulted in a reduction of wages in some cases, access to health and education is reduced as well, and while you will expect this to be happening in poor countries like Africa, this has surfaced in Western Europe and North America. Globalization has benefited the world in general, but the problem is that not everyone is actually taken care of in this aspect and the people who are neglected simply do not have a say in anything that goes on. As the world continues to globalize, the situation of the poor deteriorates just like how the skinny man in the cartoon is continually stretched, and there is nothing much that they can do other than wait for help from organizations such as World Bank. The people living in poverty are overlooked and ignored while the quest for globalization continues. I feel that more has to be done to help the poor keep up with the rapidly-globalizing world and they need to be included in the globalization of the world so that there will not be such a distinct line between the rich and the poor and that it will really benefit every person, and not just a part of the population.
