General Paper Tuition Singapore A level General Paper Is poverty an inevitable feature of today’s world?

Topic: Poverty

Issues: Whether poverty is an inevitable feature of today’s world

Context: Today’s world (advancement of technology, information revolution, growing disparity)

Keyword: inevitable (certain to happen, unavoidable),

Yes- Poverty is likely to be an inevitable feature of today’s world

1. The current global economic divide will continue to widen and further perpetuate poverty.
2. In November 2013, the World Economic Forum releases these findings:

• Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population.
• The bottom half of the world’s population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.
• Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years.

1. This economic divide is further driven by the digital and technological divide which benefit the richer nations and side-lined the poorer nations.

1. Such worsening inequality is impeding the fight against global poverty.

2. The capitalistic model which most countries based their economic activities on will continue to encourage exploitation and unfair trade practices and make poverty inevitable
3. One of the inevitable results of an economic system that prioritises profit maximisation is poverty

• Rich countries benefit most from the booming international trade. Poorer countries are being marginalised due to unfair trade practices and exploitation
•  For example, many clothing brands tend to have their products manufactured in sweatshops in impoverished areas of the world, with young children found working in dangerous working conditions and with the factories they work in not being well-constructed. Even more sad is the fact that so many big-name brands rely on the services of sweatshops in countries like Bangladesh to manufacture their clothes. However, many companies have been caught doing such practices and have suffered the consequences as a result. One of the most recognizable jean brands in the world, The Gap was caught up in a scandal involving workers in India in 2010 when an investigation showed that those workers had been working 16-hour days with extremely minimal – and illegal – pay, to the tune of less than 40 cents per day. 
•   For example, many countries have employed transient workers to meet their temporary development demands but these workers often work in unfavourable conditions. During the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, migrant workers from Haiti building the World Cup Stadiums had protested against inhumane work conditions.

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