ALDERSGATE COLLEGE THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES AND EDUCATION JOLLY K. NGALOY & RENE REY L. ALCODIA
APRIL ROSE PALE
BSIT-1B

Activity 1. Reflective Writing

Economic Globalization and Global Trade in the Philippines

How can we upgrade our economy, especially the giant economies like the United States and
Japan? How do we examine economic globalization considering our colonial history? What is the
significance of international trade in terms of importing and exporting products between countries?
According to Gao Shangquan (2000) economic globalization refers to the increasing
interdependence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities
and services, flow of international capital and wide and rapid spread of technologies. In the same way,
Shawn Grimsley (2003) believes that the import and export of products and services across international
borders is simply referred to as global trade, also called international trade.
In order for our country to have upgraded economy like the United States and Japan we need to
invest in discounts and tax cuts for the middle class. As a result, the middle class will be more motivated
and spend more without any queries. Furthermore, promoting economic growth through innovation can
lead to increased productivity, which means by the European Central Bank (2017) that the same amount of
input produces more output and more commodities and services are created as productivity rises. Also,
ending war on drugs can help our country to grow. Unemployed people should find a decent job that can
provide them all the important essentials that help them to survive rather than being a drug seller that can
ruin everyone’s life. In the same time, our law should be fair to any people and never be prejudice. A court
should help a person who needed its help without minding the status whether poor or rich. Corruption is
the reason why our government is becoming tainted that makes our economy slow in progress.
We examine our economic globalization considering our colonial history through learning on the
way the different countries have invaded our economy. For example, according to Johner Joshua Calisanga
(2017) the production at that time was used in cargo ships that is used by Spanish colonials to import
products that’s the reason why globalization still improves on this day.
International trade enables countries to extend their markets and gain access to goods and services
that would otherwise be unavailable in other countries. As we import products in our country new products
can excite the consumers to buy it. For example, importing the products about Korean girl or boy group in
South Korea here in the Philippines can excite the consumers to buy it and the consumer can sell it to other
consumer for benefits. Exporting our products to other countries can help our economy to grow. We export
our product to gain new ideas on managing and marketing techniques and makes our relationship stronger
to other countries. In conclusion, international trade is important for our economic growth in terms of
importing and exporting products in the Philippines.

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Activity 2. Provide realistic actions & responses on the following goals and agenda of SDGs:

No. Goals of the UN Your Actions & Responses

1 Ending poverty & hunger in Africa
2 Gender inequality & education in
Middle East and North Africa
3 Water crises & Healthcare in India
and South Asia
 helping them by donating foods and water
 offering the adults decent works to sustain their family
 doing programs on how to do gardening where they
can gain food and money on it
 giving the poorest people money for them to start
business
 making them understand the meaning of gender
equality through programs and mass media for them
to analyze their wrong doings
 put an end to any violence and sexual assault
 increasing the educational trainings for teachers and
student
 educating both the parents and their son or daughter
about the benefits of education to them
 educating the people in both countries about
conserving the water
 recycling rain water
 improve health care services
 upgrading all the medical equipment
 high salary for healthcare workers for them to be
motivated

Activity 3. Fill out the needed information below:

Top 5 poorest Give each factor why Provide each solution to lessen or cut
country in the poverty exist in each poverty in Column 2
world country in Column 1
1. The Central  poor agricultural  educating the CAR citizens about
African  poor geographic agricultural techniques,
Republic conditions geographic conditions and
 an expensive, marketing management
poorly-
constructed
medical system
2. Burundi  civil war  educating them the different
 rising of food farming techniques through mass
prices coupled media or programs
with high  donating foods and water
population growth  doing a free psychology checkup
makes them for the citizens who suffer in the
suffer from civil war
hunger
 poor farming
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techniques
3. Democratic  governmental  making a proposal to the president
Republic of corruption about the corruption so that they
Congo  instability from can remove him/her in his/her
years of wars position
 conflicts over  help raise awareness about the
basic resources instability in DRC
 educating them about the effects
of over mining the natural
resources
4. Niger  high birth rate  educating them about birth control
 major and minor and what will they do to lessen the
droughts that effect in agriculture and economic
affect agricultural growth due to drought
and economic  improve first the security in Niger
growth to be able arrest the group of
 outward effects of Boko Haram
the conflict
involving the
militant Islamist
group Boko
Haram
5. Malawi  problems with the  improve the knowledge of the
agricultural citizens about agricultural sectors
sectors through trainings
 diseases  doing a free checkup and free
medicines

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LEARNING ACTIVITIES

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