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Discuss about the Children

HEARTS AND HEADS

By Paul Krugman

SYNOPSIS: Anti-globalization protestors want to turn the world into a nasty place. There is an old European saying: anyone who is not a socialist before he is 30 has no heart; anyone who is still a socialist after he is 30 has no head. Suitably updated, this applies perfectly to the movement against globalization — the movement that made its big splash in Seattle back in 1999 and is doing its best to disrupt the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City this weekend.

The facts of globalization are not always pretty. If you buy a product made in a third-world country, it was produced by workers who are paid incredibly little by Western standards and probably work under awful conditions. Anyone who is not bothered by those facts, at least some of the time, has no heart.

But that doesn't mean the demonstrators are right. On the contrary: anyone who thinks that the answer to world poverty is simple outrage against global trade has no head — or chooses not to use it. The anti-globalization movement already has a remarkable track record of hurting the very people and causes it claims to champion.

The most spectacular example was last year's election. You might say that because people with no heads indulged their idealism by voting for Ralph Nader, people with no hearts are running the world's most powerful nation.

Even when political action doesn't backfire, when the movement gets what it wants, the effects are often startlingly malign. For example, could anything be worse than having children work in sweatshops? Alas, yes. In 1993, child workers in Bangladesh were found to be producing clothing for Wal-Mart, and Senator Tom Harkin proposed legislation banning imports from countries employing underage workers. The direct result was that Bangladeshi textile factories stopped employing children. But did the children go back to school? Did they return to happy homes? Not according to Oxfam, which found that the displaced child workers ended up in even worse jobs, or on the streets — and that a significant number were forced into prostitution.

The point is that third-world countries aren't poor because their export workers earn low wages; it's the other way around. Because the countries are poor, even what look to us like bad jobs at bad wages are almost always much better than the alternatives: millions of Mexicans are migrating to the north of the country to take the low-wage export jobs that outrage opponents of Nafta. And those jobs wouldn't exist if the wages were much higher: the same factors that make poor countries poor — low productivity, bad infrastructure, general social disorganization — mean that such countries can compete on world markets only if they pay wages much lower than those paid in the West.

Of course, opponents of globalization have heard this argument, and they have answers. At a conference last week I heard paeans to the superiority of traditional rural lifestyles over modern, urban life — a claim that not only flies in the face of the clear fact that many peasants flee to urban jobs as soon as they can, but that (it seems to me) has a disagreeable element of cultural condescension, especially given the overwhelming preponderance of white faces in the crowds of demonstrators. (Would you want to live in a pre-industrial village?) I also heard claims that rural poverty in the third world is mainly the fault of multinational corporations — which is just plain wrong, but is a convenient belief if you want to think of globalization as an unmitigated evil.

The most sophisticated answer was that the movement doesn't want to stop exports — it just wants better working conditions and higher wages.

But it's not a serious position. Third-world countries desperately need their export industries — they cannot retreat to an imaginary rural Arcadia. They can't have those export industries unless they are allowed to sell goods produced under conditions that Westerners find appalling, by workers who receive very low wages. And that's a fact the anti- globalization activists refuse to accept. So who are the bad guys? The activists are getting the images they wanted from Quebec City: leaders sitting inside their fortified enclosure, with thousands of police protecting them from the outraged masses outside. But images can deceive. Many of the people inside that chain-link fence are sincerely trying to help the world's poor. And the people outside the fence, whatever their intentions, are doing their best to make the poor even poorer.

Originally published in The New York Times, 4.22.01

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As per this synopis, he referenced that separated from globalization constructive outcomes there are a few more awful effects which make him imagine that should globalization be there with these terms which is really predominant surrounding us.

Aside from progresses in innovation, communication, methods for production, and transportation, globalization is a test to wellbeing and prosperity around the world.

In the article he additionally referenced that we can't grab the chance of being employed from the little laborers however we ought to think about the humanity.

On the off chance that the wages are higher, at that point set number of representatives could be enrolled or you can say given work in this way wages can likewise be not increased so greatest number of individuals could get work to win for their business yet separated fromt his here he is worried about the work offered to childern and additionally he referenced that if work is being grabbed from the hands of children in name of child work then they will be seen with the more awful employments or in the city.

In the idea of all situation just a single thing should be possible is to update not many policies towards the humanity as we can't go a long time back and modify globalization or stop exchange accross the world however we can include humanity policies with exchange which may include:-

• Sanitization of the spot were children or the representatives needed to accomplish work

• Appropriate home havens

• Cruch office to the womens with babies

• Dinner facilty

• Indeed, even we can add low maintenance instruction office to be given subsequent to working hours (on the off chance that child can work, at that point he can without much of a stretch figure out how to learn hardly any things through training which the businesses can make availabe according to there work too btu atleast a methodology for the turn of events)

• Clothing regulation to made obligatory from manager side(which help workers to get garments )

• Most importantly there must be instrument of check over the execution of the policies(as numerous policies are made with the confident person thought however not followed by the individuals)

• Appropriate clinical examination ought to be made impulse of the representatives with each quater passed.

These policies may sound as heard before in typical divisions yet they are not joined in globalization policies .If they are included as mandatory and without consummation of this essential policies exchange might be cancellled by the specialists.