ESSAY 5. (UNIT 5)

SHOULD GOVERNMENTS OF RICHER NATIONS TAKE MORE REPONSIBILITY FOR HELPING THE POORER ONES? 

         Firstly, today’s world has been divided into developing and industrialized countries which the main difference between them is the amount of money that governments apply in important sectors such as education, health and commerce. However, most of the poorer nations are buried in debts as a result of their unbalanced finances that are reflected in a failed health care, an unstructured education system and a weak international trade. This situation will persist considerably unless richer nations show concern in minimizing the worldwide differences by taking more engagement in order to assist the prosperous countries.

         Secondly, most of the African countries live in deplorable conditions because of the bad living conditions, hungers, diseases, unemployment, lack of education and both inexperienced and corrupt administrations. Unlike the richer countries, it is so noticeable the devastating consequences of the AIDS epidemic in the poorer ones which can easily improve if the infected population were to receive free drugs to control the disease, have access to health professionals, and get information on how to prevent its spread. Furthermore, this can only be achieved through international help programs in which leaders of the world’s richest countries provide medical supplies, and also send medical personnel in order to treat and educate those in need.

        Moreover, most of the poor countries depend on selling agricultural products and raw materials to rich nations and buying manufactured goods from them resulting in a huge financial debt. Consequently, they borrow a significant amount of money from the World Bank to try to improve their broken economies, but sometimes the money disappears with no significant changes and they can not even pay the interest to the bank. Thus,  if the wealthier nations help the poor ones, a considerable change in government positions will be necessary.

         Regarding this issue, there is an active participation of the G8, the eight richest nations all over the world, that too often forgive billions of dollars worth of debt by the world’s poorest countries. In conclusion, they develop adequate loan programs to financially assist those affected countries. Thus, leaders of the industrialized countries play a pivotal role in assisting developing nations in dealing with essential areas such as health, education, and trade. Also, their aid is the key to reducing poverty and death. Only if the governements focus on working with people so as to reduce the social problems will citizens support them.