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The paper discusses the multifaceted impacts of globalization, highlighting its economic, cultural, and political dimensions. It defines globalization as the integration of nations into a global economy characterized by free trade and capital mobility. Key themes include the role of technology in facilitating globalization, the rise of multinational corporations, and the potential cultural homogenization resulting from globalization. The conclusion addresses the challenges posed by globalization, including rising inequality and unsustainable production practices, while suggesting frameworks like the Uppsala internationalization process model to understand international market dynamics.
The term Globalization (or globalisation) refers to processes of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. [1][2] Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity theInternet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. [3] Though several scholars place the origins of globalization in modern times, others trace its history long before the European age of discovery and voyages to the New World. Some even trace the origins to the third millennium BCE. [4][5]
Globalisation is a term widely used to describe the sharing and exchange of values between countries across borders, these values can either be material or immaterial such as cultures, capital, goods and services. This is commonly because of international trade, advances of transportation, technologies and communication across the world. Globalisation is also seen as the interdependence of individuals, organisations and nations. It is the interaction and integration influenced by international trade and investment, and backed by information technology. Globalisation has greatly influenced the economic interdependence of different countries as well as advancement in communication technologies, and the progress of technology in general.
Globalization or globalisation is the trend of increasing interaction between people or companies on a worldwide scale due to advances in transportation and communication technology, nominally beginning with the steamship and the telegraph in the early to mid-1800s. With increased interactions between nation-states and individuals came the growth of international trade, ideas, and culture. Globalization is primarily an economic process of integration that has social and cultural aspects, but conflicts and diplomacy are also large parts of the history of globalization. Economically, globalization involves goods and services, and the economic resources of capital, technology, and data. [1][2] The steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships are some of the advances in the means of transport while the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones show development in telecommunications infrastructure. All of these improvements have been major factors in globalization and have generated further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. [3][4][5]
2008
Although in its simplistic sense globalization refers to the widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnectedness, such a definition begs further elaboration. ... Globalization can be located on a continuum with the local, national and regional. At one end of the continuum lie social and economic relations and networks which are organized on a local and/or national basis; at the other end lie social and economic relations and networks which crystallize on the wider scale of regional and global interactions. Globalization can be taken to refer to those spatio-temporal processes of change which underpin a transformation in the organization of human affairs by linking together and expanding human activity across regions and continents. Without reference to such expansive spatial connections, there can be no clear or coherent formulation of this term. ... A satisfactory definition of globalization must capture each of these elements: extensity (stretching), intensity, veloci...
Globalisation is the process of Cultural economic and Political Integration of the world.
Recent years have had many changes and shifts, one of the largest shifts was towards Globalization. Globalization is the process of economies shifting into the global market. It has the concepts of Comparative and absolute advantage to its support. However with the specialization of labor and technological advancements, globalization has been adopted by many countries alike. This adaptation had not been analyzed, but with the recent events that unfold economically, scholars and economists have started to question the traditional beliefs and theories of globalization. Also as to how do globalization affects the world? The question has been sought to be answered by many modern economists such as the likes of Stieglitz and so forth. Many economists still defend globalization, and the contrary raises questions on the developing or the under developed countries, countries like Uganda or Ethiopia have shown growth and developments but it has been of little significance. The other aspect of the critiques on globalization is that it helps not only the elite but imposes a corporate culture that is trying to be universalized. Organizations that are operating on the global scale such as the IMF or World Bank have policies that imposes its own rights in other economies by persuading them to shift to free liberalized economies. However there are arguments supporting globalization as well as to how a global culture reduces violence and paves way for cultural and ethnic tolerance, allows countries to specialize and etc. Moreover as to whether there is no link between corruption and market system or developmental failure, and that the globalization itself does not have flaws but the way it is implanted is flawed. Such is the case of Globalization as it affects socio-political, ethnic and cultural values and much more. All these aspects are taken into detailed consideration and the discussion is formed
The term globalization has become almost a cliché in the present day world with its recurring presence in many contexts. It is referred to and discussed extensively in scholarly work as well as in political discourses and mass media. One may hear reference is frequently made to phrases such as ‘the impact of globalization’ or ‘the disadvantages of globalization’ in the said contexts, and may or may not give much thought to them. However, the frequent use of the term definitely gives one a broad idea as to how globalization has become a phenomenon that merits a deeper understanding and a careful study.
The world in the past was confined to a nation, a community or a village. This made it so difficult interacting with the people who were some distance away. However changes that have particularly been brought about by the advancing technology have transformed the world into what was never imagined before; a small village that can be travelled in just a few moment. This paper seeks to explain the negative and positive impact of globalization through extensive research. The findings indicate that economic sustainability is at the epicenter of the positive impact of globalization. Countries can share production factors and multinationals can open branches anywhere they deem fit. Globalization has also increased the variety for consumers and created more market opportunities for producers. At the socio-economic front, globalization has enhanced cultural interaction thereby fostering tolerance. However, globalization has its own limitations. First on the list is the monopoly of big multinationals especially in developing countries. Globalization has also led to an increase in the spread of communicable diseases such as H1N1 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
2018
This article describes and explains the five pillars of contemporary globalization. This process is provoked especially by the rapid development of information, communication and transportation technology, especially since the 1980s. There are five fundamental pillars of contemporary globalization, namely internationalization, interdependence, westernization and the rise of world society. These five pillars are connected to each other. However, the globalization process creates two different global impacts, namely prosperity on the one hand, and poverty which is based on global economic inequality on the other hand. Several elaborated strategies to overcome the challenges of contemporary globalization, such as international cooperation and the revised version of Welfare State tradition, are also elaborated.
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