Rich countries often give financial aid to poor countries, but it does not solve poverty, so rich countries should give other types of help to poor countries rather than the financial aid. To what extent do you agree or disagree?(考題重現(xiàn):2009.02.07/2007.11.24)。
核心詞匯:financial aid, poor and rich countries.
文章結(jié)構(gòu):辯論型片面式話(huà)題。
Nowadays the world has been divided into developing and developed countries. The main difference between them is the amount of money that governments apply in important sectors such as education, health care and commerce. Most of the poorer nations are buried in debt as a result of their unbalanced finances, which reflect the failed health care, the unstructured education system and the weak international trade. .This vicious cycle will continue indefinitely unless wealthier nations show interest in the worldwide economic differences, as well as taking more responsibility for assisting unfortunate countries.
Most of the African countries live in sub-human conditions because of extreme poverty, upheaval, hunger, disease,unemployment, lack of education and both inexperienced and corrupt administrations. The devastating consequences of the epidemic of AIDS in those countries could improve if the infected population can receive free drugs to control the disease and have access to health professionals and get information on how to prevent its spread.But this can only be achieved through international relief in which leaders of the world's richest countries donate medicines and also send doctors and nurses to treat and educate those in need.
Moreover, most of the poor countries rely on selling agricultural products and raw materials to rich nations and buying industrialized products from them, which results in a huge financial deficit. Consequently, they borrow a significant amount of money from the World Bank to try to improve their broken economies, but sometimes the money disappears with no significant changes and they cannot even pay the interest to the bank.Regarding this issue, last year the G8, which is comprised of leaders of the eight richest nations, decided to forgive billions of dollars worth of debt owed by the world's poorest nations. In addition, they developed adequate loan programs to financially assist those countries.
In conclusion, leaders of the industrialized countries play an indispensable role in assisting developing nations and dealing with essential areas such as health, education and trade. In addition, their aid is the key to breaking the vicious cycle, which results in poverty and death.
當(dāng)今世界分為發(fā)展中和發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家兩類(lèi),主要區(qū)別在于政府投入在重要領(lǐng)域例如教育、醫(yī)療和貿(mào)易等的金錢(qián)數(shù)目。由于經(jīng)濟(jì)不平衡,多數(shù)貧窮國(guó)家深陷債務(wù)危機(jī),其表現(xiàn)為不景氣的醫(yī)療保障,混亂的教育體系和贏弱的國(guó)際貿(mào)易。這種惡性循環(huán)將會(huì)持續(xù)下去,除非較富有的國(guó)家對(duì)減小國(guó)際間經(jīng)濟(jì)差異表現(xiàn)出興趣,同時(shí)也愿意承擔(dān)更多責(zé)任去扶持貧窮國(guó)家。
由于極度貧窮、混亂、饑餓、疾病、失業(yè)、缺乏教育和無(wú)經(jīng)驗(yàn)并腐敗的政府,多數(shù)非洲國(guó)家生活在低于人類(lèi)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的狀態(tài)下。只要受感染人群能夠得到免費(fèi)的藥物去控制疾病,并且向健康專(zhuān)家求教,掌握有關(guān)防止疾病傳播的信息,艾滋病流行的災(zāi)難性后果將可能得到改善。但這一切都需要國(guó)際援助才能辦到,而那些富有國(guó)家的要捐獻(xiàn)藥品同時(shí)派遣醫(yī)護(hù)人員去救治和教育有需要的人。
進(jìn)而,大多數(shù)貧窮國(guó)家依靠向富裕國(guó)家銷(xiāo)售農(nóng)產(chǎn)品和原材料,同時(shí)買(mǎi)進(jìn)工業(yè)制成品,這導(dǎo)致了巨大的經(jīng)濟(jì)逆差。結(jié)果,貧窮國(guó)家向世界銀行進(jìn)行巨額貸款來(lái)挽救崩潰的經(jīng)濟(jì),但總是在毫無(wú)實(shí)際效果的情況下把錢(qián)花個(gè)精光,甚至連銀行的利息都還不上??紤]到這些狀況,去年(2010年)G8會(huì)議(八國(guó)首腦峰會(huì),由全球富有的8個(gè)國(guó)家的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)組成),決定免除數(shù)以10億美元的貧窮國(guó)家的債務(wù)。此外,他們還提供充足貸款項(xiàng)目,從經(jīng)濟(jì)上幫助那些貧窮國(guó)家。
總之,在幫助貧窮國(guó)家解決處理如醫(yī)療、教育和貿(mào)易等首要領(lǐng)域的問(wèn)題方面發(fā)達(dá)工業(yè)國(guó)家的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)起到重要作用。此外,他們?cè)瞧瞥龑?dǎo)致貧窮和死亡的惡性循環(huán)的關(guān)鍵。