Improvements in health, education and trade are essential for the development of poorer nations.

However, the governments of richer nations should take more responsibility for helping the
poorer nations in such areas. To what extent do you agree?

These days, public debate has been going on over whether the developed regions should invest the
money in health, education, and import and export in undeveloped nations. Because, these things
are important for the weak community to grow up in society. I tend to believe that the richest
authority must need to build these facilities in low-grade countries-for the following reasons.

Agree

1. Jobs can be outsourced to skilled workers from economically backward countries. With this,
both the countries can be mutually benefited. Rich nations will get the labour while people
of poor nations will earn good income.
2. Developed nations have advanced health technology which they can share to developing
nations so that poorer nations can enhance their health sector. When heath sector of poorer
nations will be enhanced, citizens of that poor nations will have more access to health
centres.
3. Affluent nations can offer some online courses free of cost to the citizens of financially weak
countries. Some masses in the poor nations are not able to afford higher courses and if they
will get support from developed countries, they can prosper in their life.
4. Rich nations should invest in poorer nations to build industrial infrastructure so that the
trade between two countries can be started. When rich countries trade with poor countries,
they get the raw material or goods at a reasonable market rate and the export of rich
nations also increase.

Disagree

1. If developed nations support developing nations, the development of the host country will
be affected as the funds of developed nations will be diverted.
2. Poor nations should not be completely dependent on rich nations and should start investing
in research and development in the health sector as well. It would be extremely difficult for
poor nations to survive in difficult situations because, in worse pandemic situations, rich
nations would be unable to provide assistance to poor nations.
3. When rich countries trade with poor countries, they negotiate to buy raw materials or goods
at a very low cost, which ultimately benefits rich countries. It not only enables the drain of
wealth from poor countries but also weakens the existing market for those traded products.
4. When rich countries support poor nations in health, education and trade, they start
interfering in the political system of the country. Because rich nations always try to
dominate poor nations, they interfere in the political system of poor countries to gain
economic benefit.
The line graph compares figures for unemployment in America and Japan over a period of six years.

Overall, at the beginning of the period, the unemployment rate was higher in US compared to Japan.
However, the proportion of the workforce unemployed in Japan rose steadily between March 1993
and March 1999, while the figure for America fell.

In March 1993, US had 7% unemployment, in comparison with only 2.5% in Japan. Between 1993
and 1997, the American unemployment rate showed a downward trend, whereas the figure for
Japan had an upward trend. In contrast, in Japan, the unemployment rate rose steadily,
reaching above 4%.

The percentage of unemployment in America fell over the next three years, dropping to 5% in March
1999. There was an overall fall of 2% in the US workforce over this period of six years.

On the other hand, the proportion of Japanese workforce not working rose to over 5% in march
1998. The figure plateaued between March 1998 and March 1999. There was an overall rise of 2.5%
in the number of people not working over a period of six years.
It is interesting to note that both the US and Japan had 5% unemployment by the end of the period.