“Dünya yurttaşları; kıskançlık, açgözlülük ve kinden uzaklaşacak biçimde eğitilmelidir.”
Summary So many recent econometric studies have tried to prove a systematic relationship between globalisation and growth and between growth and poverty reduction. The message of these studies was clear: Open your economy, liberalise and you will grow, and as you grow, poverty will be decreased. This research is supposed to lay to rest the attacks on globalisation and, though it shuns the words, breathe new life into long-discredited trickle-down economics, which held that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’. Trickle-down economics became discredited for an obvious reason : It was not true. Sometimes growth helps poor people, but sometimes it does not. By some measures poverty increased in Latin America in the 1990s, even in many countries including Türkiye where there was growth. It was not just that well-off people gained disproportionately from growth. Some of their gains may even have been
at the expense of the poor.
There are some policies that in the long term may enhance growth and reduce poverty, such as enhancing education opportunities for disadvantaged classes, which lets countries to tap into rich underused reservoirs.
But the returns to investments in pre-school education today will not manifest themselves for 2 decades or more not the kind of results that show up in typical econometric studies. Hidden beneath the surface in these econometric studies of globalisation is another subtext : Because globalisation has proven so good for growth and poverty reduction, critics of globalisation must be wrong. But these cross-sectional studies cannot address the most fundamental criticisms of globalisation as it has been practiced : That it is unfair and that its benefits have disproportionately gone to rich people.
After the last round of trade negotiations, the Uruguay Round, a World Bank study showed that Sub-Saharan Africa was actually worse off. Asymmetric liberalization had global terms of trade effects. The globalization studies suggest that Africa has suffered because it has not globalised. That may be partly true. But it is also true that Africa has suffered from the way that globalization has been managed. Thus, these econometric studies on globalisation, growth and poverty have been a misleading distraction, shifting the debate away from where it should be on the appropriateness of particular policies for particular countries, on how globalisation can be shaped including the rules of the game and on international economic institutions, to better promote growth and reduce poverty in the developing world.
The anti-globalization movement has often been charged with being unthinking in simply asking whether globalisation is good or bad. But the econometric studies, for all the seeming sophistication of their statistics,
are equally guilty.
It’s clear enough that Globalisation = Poverty! This equation has been proved by numerous proofs.
On the other hand, it’s also clear enough that Poverty = Unhealthy.. So, health workers who feel responsibility to the era they live in, should no doubt determine their struggle platform and direction towards Globalisation tales and attacks in order to create a healthier Türkiye and The World. She desperately needs urgent social policies in crucial sectors in terms of health, education, nutrition, employment, housing etc. with driven of an independent national economy policy.
by the international capital, Türkiye should no doubt radically review her policies in toto and we strongly advise her to act as a leader for organising resistance against Globalization tales just like Prof. Chossudovsky suggests too.
358 $ billionaires= 2.5 billion people! Why? Is it sustainable, bearable, is the poor could be healthy, how?
Key words : Poverty, Globalisation / Globalization, Health, Unhealthy, New World Order, Imperialism
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