The World Economy

How did global economy came into existance? Should government or market control the economy?? After the first World War Socialism and Communism seem to offer a beneficial promise of change to the world, but time sheds its truth and both system seems to point out only its weaknesses and less of its advantage.

A theory inspired by Karl Marx and was later revolutionized by Lenin. Leninism urge people of the world to reject global economy, this revolution made trade, commerce and private property criminal acts. In my opinion, a market should be like people, they should be free from governments simply because market works and government doesn’t.

Centralization was first invented by Joseph Stalin where the communist party planned and managed every aspect of the economy. Dictatorship and a bottled potential of economic growth were the reality. And soon after, the Second World War. A new system was progressed called capitalism.

The effect was the defeated government had to print more money which resulted in inflation and hyper-inflation. Bolivia for example, had inflation by the hour because government spending was over government earnings and money was printed every hour. The cost of bread increased by the hour. However in contrast, victorious countries had control over the monetary system. The world monetary was invented to secure market and protect growth.

And most countries policy and political agenda is to nurture its economic survival against the world market. In contrast, government power led to the detainment of freedom which basically means more slaves. The ones that understand the concept of economy and business grew richer and those ignorant of such knowledge become more unfortunate. As time goes by, the wealth is controlled by the few and will keep on doing so as a result of capitalism.

Democracy is a hypocrisy, reforms leads to agony and freedom is a concept of ideas that maybe no one can clearly define. Knowledge is kept by the few to keep the wealth in the few. Prosperity and abundance is merely a dream that can not experienced only to be seen as an external part of us whereas it should be a part of us. Wealth is ours to own and the secret may be abstract but as a concept of understanding, we must understand the concept of money and the history behind it all. Money in reality has no true value, banks can create money simply through loan. Money that shouldn’t exist can be create through interest rates. Federal Reserve Banks loans money to the government. The conclusion here is, money does not equal to value anymore, however money equals to debt. The government prints more money faster than we make money, this results in the loss of buying power. Return on investment must be above inflation to really develop our personal economy.
Wealth planning and investment management should be common knowledge. Set your mind to prosperity and abundance by acquiring knowledge for that knowledge is power and the lack of knowledge is the lack of power.

After 9/11 the world is becoming into a single market economy. Globalization is the next destination. A free market where everyone has a stake but no one has the control. For countries such as Indonesia with much resources, they must put much of its dependency in high economic growth by putting barriers that restricts imports into a country, develop and build our own domestic industries. Since the New Order regime, we were victimized by world trade and many inadequate government decisions.

However, the next generation is ours to own and ours only to proclaim the wealth back. Prosperity and abundance should not and is not merely a concept. It is a reality that we own and experience. Educate our country and make it what it should be… FREE and prosperous!!!

(Binti, Gian Carlo, 20 November 2008; Den Haag)

Drop-out school or lack of responsibility?

The poor education system in the third world countries and humanity consciousness

If we see some people in West Europe like in the Netherlands, walking around in the street and ask for a ‘penny’ to fulfill their needs on that day is because they chose to have a pity life and beg for the mercy from other people. These people who are known as ‘Junkie’ or street artist are quite familiar to find in big cities like Den Haag or Amsterdam. However, the civil society as well as the government realizes that basic needs of life must be strengthened as an individual social need. Hence, the government provides the responsibility for its citizens by giving the social security and insurance. Indeed, most of the European countries are obliged to secure the citizen basic needs such as a place to live, education, insurance, monthly allowance for those who do not have jobs and other policies.

Unlike in the third world countries such as Africa, South America or South East Asia, it is not a choice for people to be poor and lack of basic needs. Many priorities for these people, which basic needs come to be very important matter in their life besides education, insurance and traveling. The term for “developing countries” exists as the fact that the average income in developing countries is much lower than in industrial countries, where the economy relies on a few export crops. A developing country has a relatively low standard of living, an undeveloped industrial base, and a moderate to low Human Development Index (HDI) score. In these countries, even children are forced to drop-out from schools and have no life security which endorses them to work and help to gain the economic life of their family. While the education has a big challenge to get, the nations are having a difficulty to develop every sector due to the lack of high quality labor. It happens in this era that people who have high quality of human resources in knowledge and skills tend to seek a better payment for their services in other countries. This phenomenon created a situation where a nation needs to collect new and better improvement ideas to develop their nations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indonesian children pick through garbage at a dump in Jakarta

 

 

 

 

The fact that developing countries have difficulties in building the nation’s economic is due to the effect of globalization and failure system of government within their own nations. It is often happened that the government themselves are involved in corruption or lack of financial support towards the people as their citizens. Thus, it is failed to meet with what people needs in those countries. Furthermore, we also must come to see the causes of this ignorance are taking part in the education level. The awareness to seek a better condition of life is not fully being supported or guided by the government. Students drop-out from school or teachers are poorly trained and paid are the effect of the ignorance from their government. Teaching methods and materials are generally sub-standard, especially in government schools. While the private ones are focusing on its business capital development through these educational institutions.

There are at least 90 young women in one of the small villages in Indonesia that is called Indramayu, working as commercial sex workers whose under half of them entered prostitution between the ages of 15–16, and the rest were as young as 12 years old. Two factors often causes of prostitution are poverty and low levels of education. The average family income is just Rp300.000 or US$35 per month and gives no possibility for their children to go to school. Research says, most of these women are not well-informed concerning their health in selling their services in prostitution. So, they are threatened by the uncontrolled sexual diseases. The ‘National Estimates of Adult HIV Infection’ published in 2002 estimated that there are just over 233,000 commercial sex workers in Indonesia. Among this population there is an estimated HIV prevalence rate of 3.59 per cent which is 8,360 people. This has become a big issue for a resource-limited area like Indramayu and will have to struggle to deal with the spread of HIV/AIDS among its population. These cases of drop-out of school are the result of the Asian crisis. It was expected that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, especially in the 1980s.

As much as in Africa, knowing the high rate of HIV/AIDS has put the drop-out students much more happening since their governments are failing them. Discrimination towards students who are AIDS-affected among the schools is often occurring. High rates of school drop-out are one of the most tangible results of this systematic government neglect, Human Rights Watch said. Usually, children who drop out of school face a high risk of sexual exploitation, risky labor, and living in the street. Studies show that many girls and boys are dropping out of school as a result of sexual abuse and physical punishment. According to the report, research in Uganda found that eight per cent of 16 and 17 year-olds had sex interaction with their teachers. In South Africa, at least one-third of all child rapes are by school staff. Rates of HIV infection are higher among children with low levels of education in Africa.

Moral suggestions

In compares with industrialized countries, education has become one of the civil rights to achieve in order to balance the human production for the nation’s capital. Children until the age of eighteen are subsidized for their education and self-development at least in Western Europe. Yet, the youth are able to study and have an experience in the working field as their part-time-job.

Industrialized countries however must realize that big corporations run their manufactures in developing countries where they provide the production materials and cheap labor; thus human and its natural resources are actually important to be taken as consideration for their business in productions. Therefore, moral consciousness over the poverty and drop-out school in the developing countries should be aware around the youth and have a progressive support in order to build long-term relationships with those countries.

Essentially, youth and universities have big roles in facing these issues of today’s world problem. Firstly, I would suggest that more NGO, Universities, Governments, media in industrialized countries to take part of these issues especially in the level of education. Having a public debate to find new opportunities and fundraising to support the education system in the third world countries will give credits for every stakeholder regarding this issue. Universities must get involved in forming the discussion and organizing an event that are related to the issue, and it also must get committed with the activities of yearly fundraising for those third world countries in increasing their educational level including books and sources, besides its concept for commercializing several brands and accepts sponsorship.

Secondly, Universities and NGO’s must endorse the Governmental institutions to cooperate more in reforming the governance system fighting the economic crisis and poverty of those third world countries. Furthermore, scholarship for people from the third world countries should be given by universities as a part of the social responsibility and expand its relationship to find a potential prospect of mutual relationship.

Thirdly, Universities and NGO should not give up in convincing the Media to publish the issues over third world countries, education and opportunity for every stakeholder. Instead of delivering the negative perception of the third world countries over the corruption and poverty, they should be more active in organizing a talk show and showing public to find solutions and future potentials prospect of human interaction between the developing countries and developed countries.

Fourthly, Universities should actively engage the local NGO with those in the third world countries as well as the governments. The fact that lots of NGO’s have become an organization that are infiltrated by other parties, so it is important to have cooperation to evaluate the working system within the organization between NGO’s.

Conclusion

In conclusion, since we know that drop-out school is caused by lots of factors and also the effect has spread into several areas like HIV/AIDS. Most of the main factors are education and poverty or economical reasons.

There are not much different cases that occurred in third world countries such as Indonesia, Kenya or Bangladesh. Particularly, the issues are poverty, health, education, and mentality. However, it is important for the industrialized countries to take parts for this matter to be consideration for the mutual benefits by cooperation in education sector.

Schools, governmental institutions, law firms, media must more progressive in giving the debate over poverty in the third world countries and education. Universities have the most important role by endorsing any institutions to create fundraising events and creating new ideas for the development studies.

By actively creating the support and gaining the knowledge for the third world countries to develop in education level could give credits for every stakeholder even to assist these nations to have a better condition of life. However, the question is who would concentrate on the value of humanity for these issues?