Ma. Bernadeth P.

Lanoza

BTVTED-FSM 1A

THE GLOBAL DIVIDES: THE NORTH AND SOUTH

Pre-Assessment

List 10 countries which belong to the Global North and Global South.

GLOBAL NORTH GLOBAL SOUTH

Canada Indonesia
Singapore Costa Rica
Israel Colombia
Macua India
Japan Philippines
New Zealand Thailand
Taiwan Mexico
South Korea Malaysia
United states South America
Hong Kong Ecuador

2. Activities or Tasks

Make a Collage showing the differences between rich and poor countries. Submit your
output in a pdf file.
3.Post-Assessment

A. Make a two-column table showing 10 major differences of the global north and
global south

GLOBAL NORTH GLOBAL SOUTH

Wealthy countries
More critical, less unequal and more
democratic
Developed countries who export
technologically advanced
Sufficiency
Aging population
Zero population growth
Poorer developing countries
Lack of democracy
The least developed countries
Insufficiency
Increasing population
Population growth
 Dominance of world trade Lack of world trade
Refers to developed societies Lack of development in
societies
Politically stable More on chaos than being
united
Completed process of national Agrarian based
integration

B. Make an essay identifying the characteristics of the Global South in relation to the
social conditions of the Philippines.

The Philippines, a country of more than 70 million people and with a relatively
high population growth rate, faces significant problems of poverty, and unemployment.
These challenges is not only in the Philippines but for the whole world, and there’s a lot
of question we will encountered throughout our lives, which is what should be the action
of the government to end this challenges? Who are those responsible? Poverty is one of
the problems faced by our country. It is the state of not having enough resources
necessary for basic needs. The income of each family determines if they are poor and
varies from different location. It is best defined by social conditions of lack of access to
food, clothing, and shelter. The term “unemployment” can be tricky and often confusing,
but it certainly includes people who are waiting to return to a job after being discharged.
However, it does not anymore encompass individuals who have stopped looking for a
job in the past four weeks due to various reasons such as leaving work to pursue higher
education, retirement, disability, and personal issues. Even people who are not actively
seeking a job anywhere but actually want to find one are not considered unemployed. In
the end of this paper you will have idea about the present situation of the Philippines
which is also encountered by the other nation.
 “Education is the key that levels the playing field of opportunity between the rich
and poor, amongst social classes and races”. We always encounter this saying but
how about people who are in the middle of poverty, they can’t afford to take their
children in school, where in the money that they have are only for the foods. In the
same situation there are lots of graduates which doesn’t have a job or waiting for
another job. That is also why poverty in the Philippines is what makes me think of higher
education. Lots of people in the Philippines are educated and also lots of them are not,
because of lack of money. All I can remember is since I was young, I really wanted to
have a higher education, because without an education I was not going too far in life. At
least that’s what at my mother told me all the time. I don 't know how far my mother and
my father went with education, all I remember is they couldn’t 't help me with my
homework. I used to cry a lot because if I asked them about my school homework my
father would say “I can’t help you.” Poverty is a big hindrance not only for the people
development but in economic growth especially in global south who is in under
developing countries.

According to my research, The Philippines displays how a country in the global

south maneuvers its way in the international system. Indeed, there are significant
differences in the way it interacts with various actors. In the same way, some of the
realities that the Philippines faces are contrary to or are not totally aligned with the more
stringent concepts of International Relations. The concept of the state and the
deployment of rational choice in the context of the international system all blend in and
become more fluid when seen from the perspective of the Philippines. Sovereignty,
which is an anchor of statehood, might not have been overstepped, but what became
rational for a small state like the Philippines was not so much to exercise force to
defend its sovereign integrity, but to learn how to hedge in an international system
where great powers dominate. Seen in this light, a global south perspective is indeed
different. However, focusing solely on what makes the Philippines different runs the risk
of replicating the very modes of exclusion it tries to veer away from.

The Global South Philippines Program has been implementing in the Philippines.
Since then Philippines has evolved into more than just a country implementer,
developing campaigns, initiatives, platforms and products that are grounded on
Philippine issues while still reflecting the regional thrusts of Focus on the Global South.
Philippines undertakes policy research and engages government agencies on national
policy-making; it is involved in advocacy work and generates alternative information and
critical analyses in aid of national and global debates; it builds networks and alliances
and contributes to grassroots capability building. The main issues it addresses are
deglobalization and transformation of the global economy, trade, poverty and social-
economic justice and the commons, peace and democracy, climate justice.

In its country initiatives, the Philippines program also devotes efforts on national
and sector-based issues through its various thematic programs; two key Philippine
projects are the Development Roundtable Series (DRTS) and Deconstructing Discourse
and Activist Retooling Program (DDARP).At the core of its work, the Philippines
program is motivated and defined by its main purpose: to stand with the poor and the
marginalized. In presenting issues, in doing analysis, in making positions and defining
alternatives to achieve systemic change, the Philippines program strives to take their
perspectives.

Poverty is the main challenge facing labor policy. Poverty is primarily due to low
earning capacity of the poor and to their limited access to regular and productive jobs.
Behind these are the two interrelated root causes of in-work poverty—low education of
the poor, and the scarcity of productive job opportunities. The labor market is
segmented into “good” and “bad” jobs, with the poor working in the latter. They hold jobs
that are informal, temporary or casual, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that
the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment protection
legislation. They do not benefit from wage growth either, because their bargaining
power is weak. “Good” jobs are so few, especially in rural areas, that even better
educated workers are often forced to take unskilled jobs and work as low-paid laborers.
The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment
in both supply side (better education and skills) and demand side (better jobs). It is
critical that the young poor have improved access to quality education, and be equipped
with skills required in the modern sector of the economy. But in parallel, better jobs
need to be created, which can be attained from the growth of the formal and higher
value-added sector of the economy. The process of structural transformation should be
supported by effective labor policy. Labor regulations need to be made simpler and
more flexible to facilitate the reallocation of labor from less to more productive activities,
and from informal to formal sector. Targeted training programs have the potential to
address the problem of low skills among the poor workers, especially the young ones.
Such programs should be developed on a pilot basis and expanded if proven to be cost-
effective. Generally, in this paper government should not only the one who are working
to end this problem that facing right now, people must work their side as part of the
economy.

4. Homework

Make 5 statements stating your thoughts/opinion why a country is rich or poor.

It is always been a question to us why there is a rich and poor countries? And this
factor may lead to discrimination in each nation, there in my opinion why there is a thing
rich and poor countries is because each leader of this country has different ways and
rules in maintaining their economic growth. Probably this rich countries spend money on
health, children are studying, they can buy the things they need such as luxury goods,
foods they like to eat, in short they can get whatever they need without thinking the
value of money, as well as the people in these countries can earn enough money, which
is different in poor countries, people in these country experiencing poverty/ financial
problem, money is really important to them since they have a lot of necessity in daily
living, but the problem is that there are lots of people who don’t have a job, also the
increasing number of population which affect the economic growth of the country.
Another opinion is that because of technological advancement everyday new
technology are being invented , this rich countries can easily follow the trends without
thinking twice , also this technologies will be a big help to improve their economy, while
in poor countries sometimes is really hard for them to follow the trends since they are
experiencing lack of financial which also affect to their economy maybe they will be left
behind on what is happening the world. I also thought that these rich countries are
characterized by having political stability, low population growth, more developed and
the people and leaders here are united. On the other hand, these poor countries consist
of increasing population growth, more fragile democracies, they are heavily dependent
on primary sector exports. I thought that why there is a rich and poor country is based
on the government policy.

Reference used:

https://www.focusonpoverty.org/about-focus-on-the-global-south-philippines-
programme/

https://www.rgs.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?nodeguid=9c1ce781-9117-4741-af0a-
a6a8b75f32b4&lang=en-GB

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4621860