DEBATING SOCIETY: The president opened the society's meeting on November 29 with the sad news of the death of the previous secretary, professor Arthur Lefebvre. A silence was observed to mark the society's respect and affection for him.
The motion for debate was This House believes that Globalisation is the best hope for the Third World. Proposing, Mr Trevor Price described the plight of the Third World as a combination of extreme poverty, gross inequality, exploitation and abuse of resources. He argued that since anti-globalisation had various motives and aims but no coherent programme it could offer no hope at all for the Third World.
Opposing, Mr Myles Pollock pointed out that recent increases in globalisation had in fact been accompanied by a diminution of equality and economic growth in the Third World, so that the gap between the wealth of rich and poor countries was actually getting wider.
After some well-informed speeches from the floor, 22 of those present voted for the motion, 30 against, and there were two abstentions.
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