On balance, economic globalization benefits worldwide poverty reduction

I also want to state that all my evidence from this round is at the bottom, and includes links to the specific studies. . So I'm going to attack my opponents case in the order of his contentions and if I succeed in doing so, I have won this round. The Pro side states in their first contention that says that economic globalization benefits countries though increase quality of life, and increased opportunity. I first want to point out that the Pro side has not cited any empirical evidence on these so called "benefits". I have two responses to this contention: First, in Contention one sub-point A, my opponent says that globalization and poverty reduction are linked though a correlation. I agree with this statement, we cannot simply say something directly effects something else without a causation. Meaning, if Suzy gets a job at target, then targets sales soar 300%, can we say that Suzy drove targets sales 300%? No, that is just a correlation. To prove something like this, we need evidence that shows it. My second response is to what my opponents second point is, increased opportunity. What he is saying is, there is more infrastructure for better education. I will agree when the statement that globalization brings better education, BUT how does that help poverty if they couldn't reach this higher education. This is exactly what is happening. According to Moana S. Simas of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute in October of 2014, "Child labor, for example, derives mostly from poor households whose short-term benefits from income generated by the children exceed the benefits of sending the children to be educated" This means that because of globalization causes children to work in sweatshops, and because they are in sweatshops, they can't go to school. So who are reeking the benefits of this increase in education? Very simple, the wealthier families. As You can see, my opponents first contention falls. My opponents second contention states that globalization decreases war. This is the exact opposite of what is actually occurring. With increased economic globalization, we are actually seeing an increase in terrorism. According to Gil Feiler of Bar Ilan (ilan) University in 2007 "Islamic terrorism is financed by a global array of individuals, fronts, businesses, banks, criminal enterprises, nominally humanitarian organizations and states. Financial flows take a variety of routes " some complex, some simple, but all are evasive. The combined annual budget of Islamic terror groups between 1995-2005 hovers around the US $1 billion mark " the equivalent of $100 million per annum. This represents a substantial increase from estimates for the years 1984-1994 of US $80 million. Execution of terrorist activities requires a reliable cash stream. After his capture in 1995, Ramzi Yusif, the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other attacks admitted that cash problems prevented his operatives from making as large a bomb as they had intended. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh made a similar assessment, stating the operation did not follow its original plan and was hastily executed due to inadequate resources. " This shows that economic globalization DIRECTLY funds terrorists. The whole goal of economic globalization is to move capital across borders with the least amount of government involvement (Rogowski & Tannenbaum) , this opens the doors to money laundering and other ways to financially support terrorists (Kumar & Campbell). Lastly, according to Ben Doherty of "The Guardian", terrorism impacts the poor and poorer countries the most. As you can see, this contention has also fallen. In the end, all of my opponents contentions have fallen, and for these reasons, I urge a con ballot. Moana S. Simas et al. (Sustainability) "The "Bad Labor" Footprint: Quantifying the Social Impacts of Globalization. " MDPI. COM. Accessed 18 Jan. 2015. Published 24 Oct. 2014. . http://www.mdpi.com... Feiler, Gil. "The Globalization of Terror Funding. " Bar Ilan University. Sept 2007. Web. 3 January 2014. < . http://www.biu.ac.il...;. Rogowski, Ronald, and Tannenbaum, Daniel. "Globalization and Neo-Liberalism: How Much Does Capital Mobility Restrain Government Policy? " Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Nov 2005. Web. 4 Jan 2014. <. https://ncgg.princeton.edu... df>. (Control F "A major aspect of globalization is that capital moves faster and more easily across national borders. ") Kumar, Leena Thacker and Campbell, Joel R. . "Global Governance: The Case of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. " Forum on Public Policy. 2009. Web. 3 January 2014. <. http://forumonpublicpolicy.com...;. (Control F "As the most prominent global terrorist organization, al Qaeda created an extensive global financial network. ") Doherty, Ben. "Pakistan attack reveals the truth about terrorism: it kills more poor Muslims than rich westerners. " The Guardian. 17 December 2014. Web. 4 January 2015. <. http://www.theguardian.com...;. (Control F"National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland")