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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Globalisation

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For the last two decades, globalisation has been the main concern for many countries in the world, but it is not simply a process that started two decades ago, many studies suggested that globalisation is an essential part in mankind economic history that has stretched for thousands of years (C.R., 2013). Globalisation, as proposed by Al-Rodhan and Stoudmann (2006), can be defined as follows:
“Globalisation is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities” (Al-Rodhan & Stoudmann, 2006)
It is believed that technology is the driving force of globalisation, in turn, globalisation enables the remarkable rate of technological changes (Archibugi & Iammarino, 2002). However, not every country experiences the same benefits of these technological changes. This essay …show more content…

For example, in the aforementioned case of Ireland, although having a substantial economic growth, most sectors of the Irish high-technology industry were under the domination by foreign companies, this in turn lead to Ireland having to deeply depend on global needs for information technology. As a consequence, Ireland’s economy was particularly affected by the global recession in 2001 (Cackler et al., 2008). Moreover, the lack of infrastructures, knowledge and experience that are capable to facilitate modern technology makes developing countries have to utilise the development strategy of “leapfrogging”. The term “leapfrogging” refers to the adoption of an advanced or state-of-the-art technology, bypassing prior stages of development (Steinmueller, 2001). The strategy seems to be fruitful, however, it might pose a high liability to developing countries when there are involvements of premature technologies, without careful planning and evaluation, expensive failures are prompted to arise (Fong,

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