scholarly journals Economic globalisation and paradoxes

Temida ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Mirjana Dokmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
World Population ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Rich

The increased development of technology and integration of markets have created possibilities to eradicate hunger, poverty and other illnesses of the mankind. Contrary, the world is facing opposite trends: the widening gap between the rich and the poor, increasing poverty, human security and conflicts. The negative effects of the globalisation that experience the majority of the world population are rooted at the ruling neoliberal model of macro economy, shaped and dictated by the international financial institutions, WTO, multilateral companies and transnational corporations. This logic is based on the free market economy, free flow of capital, resources, investments and labour force, trade liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation, reduction of social services, and elimination of the concept of ?the public good?. This economic model induces exploitation, discrimination, and inequalities, and therefore, it suits only to the big and powerful (states, markets, companies, individuals...), while brings disadvantages to the small and less powerful (states, markets, companies, individuals...). In addition, it deepens historical and contemporary inequalities based on race, sex, ethnicity, nationality etc. between and within states, and regions, including the West and the North. This context of development especially hurts vulnerable and marginalised groups, including women, resulting in their social exclusion and increased poverty. The efforts regarding the realisation of the UN Millennium Development Goals, including eradication of poverty and hunger, and development of gender equity, will be not effective at all until the neoliberal model should be replaced by the heliocentric, human rights approach to development.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
American University ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
High Level ◽  
Education And Development

“The real treasure is in the minds of our children, and all we have to do is extract it.” Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah writes in website Queen Rania Foundation For Education And Development www.qrf.org/en. Rania Al Yassin was born on August 31, 1970. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the American University of Cairo in 1991. She applied this, first, to a banking career in Jordan and, later, to the information technology sector. After marrying Prince Abdullah bin Al Hussein on June 10, 1993, they went on to have four children: Prince Hussein, Princess Iman, Princess Salma, and Prince Hashem. In addition to being a wife and mother, Queen Rania works hard to lift the lives of Jordanians by supporting their endeavours and helping to create new opportunities for them. Locally, she is committed to breathe new life into the public education system; empower communities and women especially through microfinance initiatives; protect children and families; and drive innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, especially amongst young people. Internationally, Queen Rania is an advocate for tolerance, compassion and bridge building between people of all cultures and backgrounds. Her efforts to simultaneously challenge stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims, and promote greater understanding and acceptance between people of all faiths and cultures, have won her global recognition. Her Majesty’s passion is education. She believes that every Jordanian girl and boy, and all children, should have access not only to stimulating classrooms and modern curricula, but inspiring teachers and technology that can connect Jordan’s children to the world and the world to Jordan’s children. Her efforts in the education sector complement the work of the Ministry of Education through initiatives such as the Jordan Education Initiative, the Queen Rania Teachers Academy, Madrasati, Edraak and others. To realize these and so much more, Queen Rania has encouraged private sector partners to drive improvements and strengthen the foundations of Jordan’s education system. Queen Rania is also a global voice for access to quality education for children around the world. In 2009, Her Majesty championed the 1 Goal campaign for education; she is Honorary Chair of the UN Girl’s Education Initiatives and has advocated access to education in forums and gatherings around the world. Her work and her efforts to improve the learning opportunities for children have been recognized at the highest levels, nationally, regionally and internationally. Additionally, through her position on their boards, Her Majesty contributes to the work of the United Nations Fund and the World Economic Forum. She is the Eminent Advocate for UNICEF; and she was part of the UN appointed High Level Panel who advised on the shape and content of the Sustainable Development Goals which aim to improve the lives of millions of people before 2030. In recognition of her work, Her Majesty has humbly accepted many awards, locally, regionally and globally. These include the Walther Rathenau Award from the Walther RathenauInstitut in Germany for her efforts to greater peace and understanding; the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from Tech Awards, USA; the Arab Knight of Giving Award from Arab Giving Forum, UAE; the North South Prize by the North South Prize, Portugal; as well as the YouTube Visionary Award. Her Majesty authored several books primarily for children including the Sandwich Swap, which was inspired by her own childhood experiences.

scholarly journals The Barriers to Proletarianization: Bolivian Mine Labour, 1826–1918

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (S4) ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick D. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Export Orientation ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Goods ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
The Rich

Labour history in Latin America has, to a great degree, followed the models set by the rich historiography in Europe and North America. Other than a justifiable concern with the peculiarities in production for export of primary goods, much of the Latin American historiography suggests that the process of labour formation was rather similar to that of the North Atlantic economies, only lagging behind, as did industrialization in this region of the world. However, this was not the case. The export orientation of the mining industry and its peripheral location in the world economy introduced certain modifications not found in the North Atlantic economies. The vagaries of the mining industry, exacerbated by the severe swings in raw material prices, created conditions which hindered proletarianization and modified the consciousness of the mine workers.

scholarly journals Hungry people in the rich world-a study of poverty turning lethal

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Hasnan Baber
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Empty Stomach ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Growing Population

America is the richest country in the world. And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbours will go to bed hungry. It may be your child's schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach. Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn't make ends meet. Perhaps it's an elderly neighbour who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries. The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America- David Nasby, General Mills Over 1.2 billion people - one in every five on Earth - live on less than $1 (U.S)a day. We're getting fatter and fatter in America, as well as in most of the rest of the world. Of course there are some starving people who don't have enough to eat or to sustain themselves, and this is a serious problem that should be addressed. Poverty does not have one clear definition. It is a complicated, multi-faceted concept. For this paper the term 'poverty' will be used to mean a lack of access to basic resources including food, clean water, sanitation, education and capital. Indeed, hunger is the worst manifestation of poverty and it will persist as long as poverty exists but Are people only hungry for food? No!. People are hungry everywhere, some for money, some for property, some for lust, some for love, some for power. As long as there is a desire for more and more, hunger cannot be eradicated. Hunger for food is fatal but equally debatable issue as other hungers of world. You give food to poor because they are hungry, they will be more hungry for better food then. Hunger is immortal but poverty can be murdered. The world has made great strides in the struggle against poverty, but we're a long way from realizing the benchmark of the Millennium Development Goals to cut in half by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer poverty. Growing population is not the cause of poverty, money is enough in the world infact more than it would have been but it is the distribution which is flawed. Richer getting richer and poorer getting poorer, it is not the mistake of poor or the luck of richer but the system itself which was created to make such difference whether it is brettonwoods conference or Americas plan to capture oil contented nations. The aim of this paper will be to prove, it is poverty alone which can be eradicated from the world by different mechanisms and policies for which every country should stand and deliver its part but not the hunger of desire to have more and more.

scholarly journals Analysis of the epidemiological profile of hospitalizations for Epilepsy in Brazilian regions between 2015 and 2019

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davi Santos Cruz ◽  
Gabriella Ribeiro de Almeida ◽  
Sávio Miranda Vidal ◽  
Maria Clara Passos Melo ◽  
Mirela de Souza Santa Cruz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Planning ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
World Population ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Epidemiological Profile ◽  
Group Sex

Background: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease with the highest incidence in the world, affecting 1.3% of the Brazilian inhabitants. On average, 10% of the world population can be affected by an epileptic seizure. Thus, knowledge of the epidemiology of hospitalizations for epilepsy enables better health planning. Objective: To analyze epidemiology of hospitalizations in Brazil’s regions in 2015-2019. Methods: It is an observational and retrospective study of the descriptive epidemiological profile, using data from the Hospital Information System (SIH/ DATASUS). Variables: year, region, age group, sex and color/race. Results: There were 263,881 hospitalizations from 2015 to 2019 in Brazil. The Southeast region has the highest hospitalization rates between 2015 and 2019, reaching 42.32% of the cases, while the North region has the smallest, adding 5.5% (n = 14,530). In the epidemiological profile of hospitalizations prevails: the male gender, with 57.65% (n = 152,134), surpassing in 36.14% the female gender, with 111,747; the age group of 1-4 years (n = 45,702), exceeding in 378,9% the age group greater than or equal to 80 years (n = 9,543); the brown race, with 36% (n = 94,091), followed by white (34.4%), black (3.8%), yellow (1.2%) and indigenous (0.14%). Conclusion:There was a higher prevalence of hospitalizations for male epilepsy, aged 1-4 years, brown race and in the Southeast region. Therefore, through this study, resolutive actions can be taken in the face of such problems.

scholarly journals Current trends in global demographic processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergii Sardak ◽  
Maxim Korneyev ◽  
Vladimir Dzhyndzhoian ◽  
Tatyana Fedotova ◽  
Olha Tryfonova
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Percent Level ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
World Population ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Demographic Processes

Current local and national demographic trends have deepened the existing and formed new global demographic processes that have received a new historical reasoning that requires deep scientific research taking into account the influence of the multifactorial global dimension of the modern society development. The purpose of the article is to study the development of global demographic processes and to define the causes of their occurrence, manifestations, implications and prospects for implementation in the first half of the 21st century. The authors have identified and characterized four global demographic processes, namely population growth, migration, increase of tourism, and change in population structure. It is projected that in the 30’s of the 21st century, the number and growth rates of the world population will reach the objective growth and these dynamics over the next two decades will begin to change in the direction of reducing the growth rates, which will lead to gradual stabilization, and eventually reduce the size of the world population. By the middle of the 21st century, one can observe the preservation of the growth rates of international and domestic migration, the growth of international migration flows from the South to the North and from the East to the West, the strengthening of new economically developed centers of gravity (Canada, Australia and New Zealand), the increase in migration of rural population to cities, as well as urbanization and activation of the metropolises development. The share of international tourists in comparison with the world population will be constantly increasing, and the annual growth rate of the number of international tourists will significantly depend on the world economy and may vary at the several percent level. Permanent change will occur in the age, religious-cultural and socio-economic structure of the population.

Future of Life-Cycle Assessment in a Smart and/or Sustainable World

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-207
Author(s):  
Aryan Shahabian ◽  
Alireza Fadai ◽  
Thomas Peruzzi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
World Population ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals

Today, even in developed countries, performing life-cycle assessment (LCA) is still a challenging and complex process, mixed with the possibility of significant errors—namely due to unreliable input data derived from unrepresentative sampling. Some scientific texts illustrate the so-called Smart World—where such errors are minimized via the exchange of information between everything globally. This may sound contradictory to the fact that now almost half the world population do not even have internet access. However, this chapter shows—by reasoning, review, and synthesis of the literature, theories, and data—that the emergence of the Smart World is plausible. Yet, it will not necessarily be sustainable, unless “smartness” is (re)defined in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. Otherwise, also, LCA might become obsolete, or its goals may transmute to non-sustainable ones. Focusing on examples from the construction industry and their interactions with other sectors, some shortcuts are also suggested to facilitate innovations and development of LCA and decision-making procedures.

scholarly journals Environmental Impacts Assessment of Chromium Minings in Bulqiza Area, Albania

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Elizabeta Susaj ◽  
Enkelejda Kucaj ◽  
Erald Laçi ◽  
Lush Susaj
Keyword(s):  
Local Institutions ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
North Eastern Part ◽  
Chromite Mining ◽  
Soil And Water

Bulqiza District is the largest chromium source, ranked fourth in the world for chrome reserves. It lays in the north-eastern part of Albania, 330-1800 m a.s.l, with 728 km² area, between 41o30’43.1N and 20o14’56.21E. There are 136 entities with chromium extraction activity and around the city of Bulqiza (2.6 km² and 13000 inhabitants), there are 33 entities. The aim of the study was the identification of the environmental state and environmental impact assessment of chromium extraction (chromite mining) and giving recommendations to minimize the negative effects of this activity. Field observations, questionnaires, chemical analysis of soil and water, meetings and interviews with central and local institutions as well as with residents were used for the realization of the study. The obtained results showed that chromium extraction causes numerous irreversible degradation of the environment in the Bulqiza area, such as the destruction of surface land layers and erosion, destruction of flora and fauna, soil and water pollution, health problems, unsustainable use and reduction of chromium reserves, etc. The inert waste that emerges after the chromium partition is discharged to the earth surface without any regularity, covering the surface of the soil and flora, leading to irreversible degradation of the environment. Most of the mining entities do not respect the contracts and environmental permit issued by the Ministry of Energy and Industry (MEI).

scholarly journals Socio-economic Initiative of the Government and its efficacy on Tribal Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
World Population ◽  
Tribal Women ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Specific Impact ◽  
Working Hour

It is a well-known reality that involvement of women in the development process is of utmost important as they comprise one-half of the world population. As per the world scenario, women’s share in relation to working hour is 60% which form 30% of the official labour force. Thus the share of contribution of the women to the world economy is 50 percentages (Department for International Development). Similarly the women in the tribal society constitute half of the tribal population. In the Indian constitution, the welfare state is enshrined with a view to ensure social justice to the most underprivileged class, particularly the scheduled tribes. Since the beginning of the 1st five year plan, the tribal administration has gained impetus and to ensure an integrated approach as well as policies for the amelioration of the tribal women, area development approach like Tribal Sub-Plan area, etc. The present study makes an assessment of the governmental efforts in different field taken for tribal upliftment with special reference to their women specific impact as well as the overall absorption, response and impact on the targeted tribal area. It is based on empirical study of two primitive tribes of Rayagada and Keonjhar district.

scholarly journals Back to the Cave: Cold, Hungry and Cruel? An epithet for the World Bank’s neoliberal economy project

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Veronica G. Caparas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Global South ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
The North ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Neoliberal Development

In this article, I show that the World Bank, along with other international financial institutions, is the primary architect of neoliberal policy of privatizing the formation of higher education and the migration of skilled labour from the Global South to the Global North. The Bank, through development gurus and theories orchestrating the pro-North development agenda, systematically manoeuvres the neoliberalization of higher education and migrant labour from the 1980s to the late 2000s with the promise of democracy, equity, justice and prosperity. Despite massive doses of The Bank-prescribed neoliberal development pills, the majority of the world’s population has yet to experience the promise. The Global South, through three selected countries that see the wisdom of wielding strong state roles in delivering social services, is able to partly parry the deadly sting of the 2008 global economic downturn. The South, immersed as it is in the North’s development agenda as shown in selected literature, has become a doppelganger of the North. In determining the South’s dynamic in service delivery, I turn to Habermas’ communicative rationality that likewise brings to bear similarly framed thoughts as the yardstick of the South’s critical voice against the North’s continuing espousal of neoliberal policy. It is this critical voice that further cultivates people’s micropolitics of beliefs, gender and language, and cries out “no” to The Bank-prescribed neoliberalized higher education and migrant labour – a prescription that leads to and simulates a “back-to-the-cave” circumstance.

scholarly journals COVID-19 in Italy: Remedies to Reduce the Infections and Deaths

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
World War ◽  
Fatal Disease ◽  
Lombardy Region ◽  
The North ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich

COVID-19 is a novel (new) coronavirus fatal disease caused by SARS-COV-2 (2019-nCoV). The outbreak of this pandemic first has been identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on 1 December 2019, and has spread worldwide very quickly. It is now a major global health threat. After the World War II, the world faces such a major challenge in health sector and economy. The virus is transmitted human-to-human through the respiratory system. From the poor to the rich, infants to old, every people are infected from this virus. The disease spreads in Italy very fast and the north of the country is mostly affected. Lombardy Region is the most infected region in the country. An attempt has been made here to discuss the aspects of infection and deaths due to COVID-19 in Italy.  

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