Relationship between Developed countries and Poor nations under name of support for poverty by Yang Gee

The poor countries had been gathered and formed block. Those blocks take intensively up a position in Asia, Africa or South America. Those poor nations have been forced to receive aid from developed countries by name of ‘development’. Developed countries are insisting that only ‘development’ is the way to solve the main global problem, the poverty. In their perspective, ‘development’ is only an insurance to support society by currency, and an antidote to solve health hygiene, illiteracy and so on by investing. However, until now, development leaded by the first world’s countries could not be successful. Even it seems that developed countries want to control the poor nations under name of development. Do they really want to help developing countries to be developed? Why the poor nations cannot solve their problem even thought developed nations support them? Is the poverty really remediless? However, I think that it come from developed countries’ national interests. National interests affect politics, economic, and social aspects. Moreover, those affect policies for the poor nations to have power and control in those countries.

    

Developed countries tend to make poor nations under their feet. To do it, to support or to stop supporting are the best way to grab those countries in their hands and control. Therefore, when the poor nation stand for itself, developed countries try to suppress it not to stand for. For example, this is story of Salvador Allende. In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race, formally elected by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority. Allende adopted the policy of nationalization of industries and collectivization (n.d, 2012). The USA disliked socialistic renovation of the Republic of Chile. The USA thought that if Allende’s policies success, America’s global companies’ prestige would be intervened. Thus, America stopped supporting to Chile. By doing it, the USA could control the Chile’s economic roots such as transportation, mine, and factory. It also suppressed multinational corporations or bank to refuse Allende’s policies. As a result, his policies were failed and military carried out a coup d'état (Ziegler, 2011). As we can see, developed countries want to control or dominate the poor nations. Supporting is not really from humanitarianism. It comes from their interests.

    

Besides, developed countries use starvation as weapon. Starvation is one of what should be solved problems in the poor nations. In those countries, over thousand children have been dead because of hunger. However, even this situation, developed countries abuse starvation as weapon for their national interests. One of typical example is Iraq and USA. When Saddam Hussein broke out The Persian Gulf War, even though the USA could kill the Saddam Hussein, it did not. Since the USA did not want Shiah to replace the Hussein government. Shiah was familiar with Iran which is enemy of the USA. However, time past, the USA wanted to get rid of the Hussein. Thus, UN member nations had started an economic blockade to Iraq for 10 years. This policy was based on UNSC’s illegal declaration (UN Security Council). Iraq only exported limited petroleum until compensating damage of Kuwait from the Gulf War. It made Iraq hard to buy enough provisions or medical supplies. Therefore, the Hussein admitted international inspectors to look around that whether Iraq made nuclear or chemical and biological weapons, or not for relaxed economic sanctions. However, what the USA wanted was that the Iraqi could not endure the pain of sanctions and hunger, and finally overthrew the government. According to Holiday, who served as coordinator for UN’s humanitarian supports for Iraq, until 1994, 60 thousands Iraqi children have been dead every year by lacking of medical supplies and malnutrition. It goes worse. 5~6000 children who were under 5 year old were dead per month by the economic blockade the USA leads(Ziegler, 2011). For national interests, other countries’ children can be victim. For developed countries, the poor nations’ difficulty is not a problem. Only their influence or politic and economic interests are important.

   

Many people conceive that the poor nations’ situations will be better. However, they won’t. They think supporting is the most important factor to solve the poverty. However, standing on nation’s own leg is more important. Developed countries just follow their nations’ interests. For them, trying to stand alone is a threat to nations’ interests. Therefore, they will keep threatening the poor nations not to be independent through stopping supports or an economic blockade. Those threats disguised as supports makes poor nations’ poverty problem go worse. Haven’t the poor nations’ been enough threatened? We should pay attention to the poor nations not to be threatened by developed countries. Poverty is global problem what we have to solve, furthermore, a human duty to make the world better place. Politic and economic interests’ intervention must be disappeared. Therefore, what we should do for them? What can it be helpful for the poor nations to reduce poverty rate? For me, continuous attention towards the poor nations and monitoring the policies of developed countries are the best ways to solve poverty issues. And we should help the poor nations to develop themselves through their own resources. Those methods will help developing countries feel free from the developed nations. What do you think guys?

Reference

Salvador Allende. (2012). Wikipedia. Retrieved June 12, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende
Ziegler, J. (2011).La faim dans le monde expliquée à mon fils. (2 ed., p.1- 74). Seuil.