Indonesian Youth, Global Environmentalism and Transnational Mining

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Nilan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Global South ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Lives

Indonesian activist students are highly conscious of the environmental risks facing Indonesia and the world. Yet they also want to make good lives for themselves in a nation experiencing strong economic growth. Using the work of Ulrich Beck, this paper examines the accounts of environmental engineering students at a prestigious university who are pro-environmental activists on campus. In interviews, they admitted that it will be difficult to negotiate a lucrative career after graduation while maintaining their environmental idealism. Even though they feel a moral responsibility of care, not only towards nature, but towards the poor of the nation, they are epistemologically anchored to the technocratic tenets of their degree. Moreover, they want to make a successful life. The paper contributes to our understanding of how youth in the Global South engage with the discourse of environmentalism while negotiating the postmillennium risk society.

The Spread of Market Values

The 1970s ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Borstelmann
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Human History ◽  
Market Values ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Economic

This chapter tracks the economy of the 1970s as it began to decline after the prosperity of previous decades. Economic growth had defined human history for two hundred years, reaching a peak in the generation after 1945 when world economic growth averaged an extraordinary 5–7 percent per year. Americans rode that growth to a higher standard of living than anyone else. But in the 1970s it all seemed to be flowing away. Unemployment, oil shortages, a plunging stock market, recession, and, above all, inflation were apparently ending these golden years of unparalleled prosperity. Inflation hit everyone, and it hit the poor hardest of all. Persistent inflation undercut dreams and hopes for the future. The economic trauma of the 1970s threatened to destabilize Americans' understanding of how the world worked.

Capitalizing the world

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Aashish Kalra ◽  
Vinode B. Ramgopal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Capital Account ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Multiplier Effect ◽  
The World ◽  
Powerful Mechanism

In capital-poor economies, redistributing what little capital there is can leave everyone poorer. In such societies, the challenge of getting capital to the poor can seem truly hopeless. Capitalization of public sector especially in the context of public–private partnerships can be crucial. India’s case shows that India did not jump on the bandwagon of privatization in the early 1990s. Increasing capitalization in India seen from the capital account suggests that the multiplier effect of capital on economic growth must be significant. Capitalization is a powerful mechanism to rebuild institutional authority. It capitalizes the bottom of the pyramid in a bold singular act; however, many challenges remain.

Progress That Is Real

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Samuel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The World

This chapter highlights the reduction of poverty. Over the course of history, the world has become rich. Indeed, it is quite clear that from 1820 on we have seen an extraordinary explosion of economic growth and standards of living that has benefited every region of the world. The bottom line shows that world standards of living were thirteen times higher in 2000 than they were in 1820. Food consumption has also gone up substantially from 1965/1966 to 2015. As such, economic development appears to have at least reduced starvation and malnutrition of the poor nations of the world. However, do these favorable trends translate into better health?

Globalization and Inequality

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Weede
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Economic Growth Rates

AbstractGlobalization may be defined by a worldwide division of labor and increasing trade between nations. This is inconceivable without expanding economic freedom across the world. Free trade and globalization increase competition, productivity, and economic growth rates. In spite of increasing inequality within many large economies – including the US, China, and Russia – inequality between human beings and households has been reduced. Since catch-up growth in big Asian economies contributes to Schumpeterian “creative destruction,” it necessitates rich economies to adapt, to become ever more entrepreneurial and innovative. This generates resentment and strengthens protectionist excesses which might serve some special interests. But protectionism harms the global economy, the prospects of the poor to grow out of poverty and, worse still, likely increases the risk of war.

scholarly journals Environmental Efforts

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Global South ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Ecological Justice ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Environmental Measures

As the world continues to run out of clean air, water and spaces, it is the poor, women, people of colour, and people of the global South who first experience the consequences. The profession of social work is well poised to advocate preventive and prescriptive environmental measures in partnership with the communities in question. An analysis of power, along with an appreciation for the unique constraints of gender, race and geography, is instrumental for the articulation of environmental threats and eco-sustainable solutions. Ecological justice opens up an exciting space where social work has much to contribute, and much to gain.

scholarly journals Determinants of Poverty in ASEAN Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
Sri Rahayu Budi Hastuti ◽  
Didit Welly Udjianto
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Asean Countries

Poverty reduction is a significant concern of all governments in the world, including in Southeast Asia. The research objective is to analyze the determinant of poverty in eight countries of ASEAN using panel data analysis, with an analysis period of 2015-2019. The results show that economic openness and inflation variables can influence the poverty level in eight ASEAN countries. In contrast, the financial sector and economic growth variables do not affect the poverty level. The implication of the results of this study is that the financial sector only facilitates the upper-middle class, and the economic growth has not been inclusive to the poor.

INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND THE FREEDOM OF THE POOR

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
William Amone
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
Determinants Of Economic Growth

This article provides a discussion of economic growth and development, including new perceptions that have arisen. It covers the trending issues of inclusive growth, global poverty and the miraculous economic growth of the East Asian economies. The article identifies the major determinants of economic growth and the key objectives of economic development. It also acknowledges the fact that inclusive and sustainable economic growth is crucial for long-term poverty reduction, and that for growth to be effective in reducing poverty it must be broad-based, targeting the poor or those formerly bypassed by development. Although most regions of the world are achieving rapid economic growth, poverty, unemployment and food shortages seem to be persisting. Inequality and social exclusion are even rising in many countries. Women remain most affected globally in all forms of afflictions. Despite the global advocacy for inclusive growth by the World Bank, IMF, WTO , WHO and OECD, many developing countries are yet to appreciate the concept and to achieve holistic sustainable growth that benefits all people. Asia seems to have witnessed more stable and inclusive growth than other developing regions in the past four decades.

Inequality from the Perspective of the Global South

2018 ◽  
pp. 210-228
Author(s):  
Manoranjan Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Global South ◽  
Principal Objective ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Tensions

Paradoxically, at a time when people in all areas of the world have been asserting their right to equality and dignity, most governments, prodded by the global elite, have focused on achieving higher economic growth with political stability, even though such policies have generated greater inequalities and social tensions. Reducing inequality has not been their principal objective. This chapter discusses the concept of inequality and the various meanings associated with it. How the problems of economic and social inequalities have been addressed in the Global South is also discussed. The chapter examines how liberal democracy treats the issue of inequality and how it is handled in regimes governed by communist parties. It also describes the notions of deferred liberalism and acquiescent socialism.

scholarly journals How Do the Poor Respond to Rising Prices?

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (4II) ◽  
pp. 827-842
Author(s):  
Zareen Fatima Naqvi ◽  
Mohammad Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Services ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Fiscal Space ◽  
The Government

Recent estimates show that after falling in the 1980s, poverty has made a comeback in Pakistan during the 1990s. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) estimate show an increase in caloric poverty headcount from 17 percent in 1987-88 to 33 percent in 1998-99 and also rising income inequality during the 1990s.1 In contrast preliminary estimates by the World Bank show that poverty may not have risen as rapidly during the 1990s and may even have stagnated.2 Slow down in economic growth, rising open unemployment, rising food and non-food prices, reduction in the fiscal space for pro-poor public programmes, poor governance hampering delivery of social services to the poor; are factors that have been attributed to the growing poverty and vulnerability of households in recent years.

scholarly journals Between enabling and provider approach: Key shifts in the national housing policy in India and Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 856-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmi Sengupta ◽  
Brendan Murtagh ◽  
Camila D’Ottaviano ◽  
Suzana Pasternak
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global South ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

With the world becoming increasingly urban, housing poverty in the global south has made the metaphor ‘planet of slums’ a global reality. This paper revisits the dichotomy of enabler vs. provider debate in housing policy that preoccupied housing scholars in the last few decades. Drawing on the government intervention in Brazil and India, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of enabling strategy has now come of an age. Among other things, the paper makes a close reading of the historical and geographical (re)constitution of the process of housing delivery in these countries and argues that they have adopted enabling strategies along with closely intertwined strategies of crisis management and show a clear predisposition towards earlier provider approach of state administered, large-scale housing programmes to support the low-income households. Thus, as one policy approach follows another, the discursive space for the government policy doctrine acquires a layered structure, which contains elements of both provider and enabling approaches. Whilst these developments, still evolutionary, challenges remain in the form of conceptual contradictions that continue to obscure our approach towards low-income housing policies in the global South. Arguably on this basis, considerably more, attention should be given to providing housing to the poor in the global South.

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