There are quite a lot of economic factors that contributes to the reduction in worldwide poverty. First, India and China – two of the biggest countries around the world that chose not participate in the global economy started to open its market outside the country since 1980s. The active participation of Chinese and Indians in the global market contributes a lot in the reduction on the number of people who are experiencing poverty. In fact, as much as 1 billion individuals were moved out from the list of global poverty. Political factors such as the reduction on tariff rates or the practice of political liberties also contributes to the increase in the economy of the used-to-be poor countries like China and India. Since tariff rates’ low in developing countries, there is a higher possibility of increase global demand for its products and services. On the contrary, developed countries maintain a much higher tariff rates as compared to developing countries. For this reason, developed countries become less competitive in a globalized market.