Does the developed world have a moral responsibility towards the under developed world?

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Gaia Wu

Does the developed world have a moral responsibility towards the under developed world?

Poverty has been a topic that has causes many discussions for generations. Are wealthy countries responsible for constantly giving money and aid to the people in poverty or should they help they help the third world to stand on their own two feet? People naturally think that third world was always poor but never stop to think how they became that way. In fact the truth is that we made it like that with slavery and wars. So is not it our responsibility to help them?

Currently the situation in the underdeveloped is looking bitter, with millions of people dieing from HIV aids and starvation there is still a lack of aid reaching them. The famine that is expected in the coming year is predicted to starve many more people. Organisations like SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) are trying their best to tackle this problem. SCIAF's visions a world in which all people, especially the poor and oppressed, those who are in poverty should have the same opportunity to live life and live it to the full but the underdeveloped world is struggling to live life at all. SCIAF’s campaigns looks at debt relief and structural adjustment while other organisations like Fairtrade focuses on only making the underdeveloped world have a fair wage for their work so that they can slowly crawl its way out of poverty.

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Many people are now in favour of Fairtrade. In the 1970s fair trade coffee was regarded by many as poor quality and drunk by only by the hippy generation but in today’s world, with more than 850 products now carrying the Fairtrade mark of quality and all major supermarkets selling Fairtrade goods many are buying the products. Fair trade products are produced in developing countries and paid for at a fair price rather that intimidating the worker and paying them hardly any money for their work. Their products usually cost a little more that the normal supermarket brands but ...

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