Globalization Advanced Free Trade, Open Markets, And...

Globalization advanced free trade, open markets, and competition in the world economy. Regrettably, this worldwide amalgamation and growth contributed to the equalities and inequalities between third world nation-states. The growing populace placed an extra demand on the third world nation-states for food, shelter, and clothing. Consequently, Africa, South Asia, and Latin America grew anxious since their populaces are predisposed to diseases, famine, and premature death. In chapter one of Promises Not Kept: Poverty and The Betrayal of Third-World Development John Isbister declared that in the twentieth cen ¬tury, The lives of people in the third world are changing. They are not improving, however, at least for the majority. In order to†¦show more content†¦Chapter one John Isbister book Promises Not Kept: Poverty and The Betrayal of Third -World Development brought to mind Huey Newton book Revolutionary Suicide. In the book’s Manifesto Mr. Newton differentiated between revolutionary suicide and reactionary suicide. Both he shared are social conditions that condemn a person to pre-mature death. Reactionary suicide deprives a person of human dignity; it renders the individual helpless while inducing spiritual, emotional and intellectual death in such a way that, â€Å"The victims have stopped fighting the form of oppression that drinks their blood.† This is caused by external factors that overwhelm, condemn and leaves a person powerless to gradually slip into a life of silent desperation. Revolutionary suicide, on the other hand, does not accept social conditions, but pushes against, â€Å"the forces that would drive me to self-murder.† In fact, Mr. Newton was not speaking about the taking of one’s life, but the social conditions that would cause a person or populace to relinquish all concept of security or prosperity. Undoubtedly, Mr. Isbister is determined to dispel widespread myths about third world countries gradually slipping into a life of silent hopelessness. The third world is undergoing rapid and sometimes chaotic social change: pop-ulations are growing and becoming more urbanized. Public health measures are lowering death rates. Within recent memory, nationalist independence