Research Paper on:
Existing Trade Regime Injustices and the Effects on the Global South

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The global economy is linked to a number of interrelated yet distinct factors. Unfortunately, some world players benefit in this economy while preying on the weaknesses  of other less powerful players. Such is the case when we consider the vulnerability of the global south, that geographic categorization which encompasses the nations of Africa, Central and  Latin America, and most of Asia. Indeed, it can be contended that the current trade regime operates against the interest of the global south. With certain manipulations, however,  the trade regime can evolve to promote the prosperity and the development of the global south while at the same time ensuring some profit for the controlling entities as well.  Those manipulations would entail the introduction of mechanisms through which entities of the global south could move away from their characteristic dependence on one or just a few resources  for export to one in which they not only relied on a more varied export but also relied less on the highly processed and often technologically advanced import.  The global South encompasses almost 157 of the 184 recognized states of the world (American University, 2003). Much of the global South suffers from  poverty, a depletion of their environmental resources and ecology, civil rights abuses, ethnic and regional unrest, little or no access to medical care and a variety of other problems (American  University, 2003). In contrast, those countries that control the world trade regime prosper tremendously from that control. There are several key world players in this interplay between the  deepest recesses of poverty and the heights of national wealth. Afghanistan and Columbia jump immediately to mind as examples of the victims in this trade regime as do Mozambique