Consequence of globalization Globalization levels the playing field, in a way that makes it hard for developed countries to compete. A country with a lower cost structure (lower wages and benefits for workers, less technology advancement, corrupt government and more lenient rules on pollution) is able to make it hard for prosperity. The world economy is becoming increasingly integrated. While globalization brings benefits to developed countries and economies in transition, embracing globalization can also bring new risks to developing countries. According to Globalization 101/Development and Globalization there are four areas why some countries are richer than other. They are geography, culture, property rights and lack of freedom. Africa …show more content…
Consequently, bad governance and maladministration have become rife all over the country. The government has acknowledged that these challenges indeed do exist and constitute a grave threat to the nation. Bribe is normal and substantiated information shows its becoming common in almost all parts of the government offices. Big internationally funded projects are taking prolonged time and in some occasions there are completion reports of the projects, even though the work hasn’t been completed. Ethiopian government has identified corruption and rent seeking activities as part of the reason Ethiopia was rocked by sweeping unrest in 2016. The Ethiopian government has since then promised to crack down on grand scale corruption which has afflicted one of the world's fastest growing economy and East Africa's largest economy. But According to Ethiopian satellite television (ESAT), “Report of the arrest of senior government officials and their cronies is occupying the headlines of the propaganda apparatus of the regime but there has been no official release as to the identities of the individuals. A similar report of the arrest of 130 government officials was announced six months ago by the mouthpieces of the regime but that report disappeared into thin air with no follow-up statement from the regime nor were there any
Globalization reduces poverty and brings up the life expectancy. According to the World Bank, in 1994 India's poverty headcount ratio was 45.3% and in 2012 it has gotten two times better. Another improvement is Ethiopia. the World Bank headcount poverty was 45.5% in 1995 a study in 2011 shows it has gone down 29.6%. Globalization has helped other countries build up their economy because once they have a factory that originated from a US company they can give jobs to people in the different country.
In the period of historical globalization, a lot of horrible events had happen and many people have suffered, also lost what they had such as land, culture, languages, family, freedom, and dignity. Like the Rwanda incidents, Apartheid Law in South Africa and the incidents in Residential Schools in Canada. Although those things had happened, they still survive and right now is rebuilding and moving forward to not let it happen again with the little help of NGOs. In my opinion, Contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization. Moving forward and start making a better future is the only answer for those horrible events from repeating itself.
Globalization is the process of integration arising from the interchange among people, ideas, and culture. Globalization shows that international trade between other countries has impacted the way the U.S is now. Most of the products we use today is made in other countries such as China, Indonesia, and South Korea. As beneficial it may sound to have products made cheap in other countries and sold in the United States at a much higher price. This is also known to have a problem to the factory workers.
The world we live in today is going through enormous changes in economics, technology, culture, politics, etc. The effects of the changes are not so clear, since it is hard to predict how each sector would affect the other and how society will be affected. However, analyzing past and present occurrences provides some information for experts to interpret society’s reaction in the future to different transformations. Globalization can be seen as a process in which societies around the world come together and expand through the combination of different forces. This paper will explore the effects of globalization on US companies, US society and economy, and the implications for other countries in the post-industrial world.
There is always a conductor of corruption, an authority figure who knowingly exploits the mind of others. They look at what they perceive is right versus what is actually right. In the case
Individual Identity: Every year my family tries to take a trip back to China in order to see family. On trip back played a big role in shaping my identity. In the summer of 2012 I had the daunting task of travelling alone China. This consisted of mastering the Chinese phrases needed to guide me along the way and some way of figuring out how to transfer flights. Surprisingly the hardest part was not finding my way it was merely being alone I found that I got very lonely in the long 14 hour trip and I needed to find a way to occupy myself in order to avoid loneliness. The things I learned from being lonely help form my identity. I found that the more I tried to push away the loneliness the more it just came
There is no doubt to reveals the fact that globalization has benefited more than developing countries. Globalization is misused or over used. The difference between rich and poor continued from the beginning of time. Nearly thousand years ago people use barter system to fill the gap between demands and supply. Due to lack of technology and lack of communication system most people sell and buy products within the boundary of a country but today recent era is a totally different era. Global currency, global language and advance technology provide a platform to stay connected all over the world.
'Despite the views of many optimists, there are clearly losers as well as winners from the process of globalization.'
Globalization is slowly causing the world to expand its trade borders to help link together countries around the world in order to avoid isolating themselves economically. Nations are starting to rely on foreign trading because "the more trading that takes place, the more wealth is created, and global trade across international frontiers has created more wealth than ever before in human history, and [has] helped lift more people out of mere subsistence than ever before." (Pirie, Globalization). The extra wealth generated by globalization has brought an increase in employment in the service sector, which provides for many of the new jobs needed. Globalization helps countries of all economic ranges to be able to succeed in the global economy by allowing them the opportunity to use foreign resources in order to succeed. Poorer countries are able to succeed by providing labor that is cheap, causing foreign countries to invest in the country, which in turn allows them to earn enough to stay out of poverty. It benefits wealthier countries as well because the money saved from importing cheaper foreign goods allows consumers to maintain a higher standard of living. Globalization also forces firms to become more efficient in order to compete with other foreign firms to succeed. However, not everyone believes that globalization is a good thing. A group called the International Forum on Globalization believes that globalism "[benefits] transnational corporations over workers; foreign investors over local businesses; and wealthy countries over developing nations."(Hoppough and Meredith, 398-399). But if this were true then the local businesses and local people in the developing nations would have no reason to ever attempt to trade outside of their borders. The reason that globalism is able to even work is because the local
According to Richard N (2006), the free movement of goods due to free market or trade has led to globalization. Though the effects have been assumed to benefit all, there is a large inequality among the poor and the rich both within the countries among the nations. Capitalism is contributed to technological advancement, which has then influenced free trade. The uncontrolled globalization has resulted in more developed societies becoming rich. The rich economies are able to exploit the market by producing at lower price due to their level of technology and advancement in research. They are also able to protect their economy through export subsidies and production subsidies to their farmers. This translates to lower prices for their goods in the global market hence controlling it. The poor countries despite having comparative advantage in production of some commodities they also suffer from competitive advantage from the developed countries they are forced to sell their commodities at a lower price than their expected. They suffer a lot in global trade, which is mainly controlled by the wealthier nations. There are regulations, which restrict the flow of goods in the world market from poor societies. This makes
Globalization offers industries many ways to increase their profits. Since businesses and corporations have access to a wider range of potential clients, they have a chance to increase profits. Global competition also
Nowadays, people share their ideas and expertise more easily due the revolution of technology. They became using same Clothes, watching same movies, and reading same books. Cuisines were before considered as a part of countries’ culture, however; variety of Asian, Indian, Arab, and others cuisines are found now easily and almost everywhere in the western region. That leads to the term of Globalisation, BBC website defines Globalisation as: “the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange” (BBC, N.D.). Globalisation have made a dramatic change in our lives, and reflected on contemporary artwork, population migration, linguistic changes, which
There are many ways to look at and understand modern globalization. In general terms, globalization means that the world, as a whole, is leading to a more utopian society, meaning that the globe is become very interconnected and similarities are growing between different regions and cultures of the world. Globalization is a phenomenon that has been evolving since before 10,000 B.C. This constant evolution can cause many problems, but it can also solve many issues positively as well. Development of any country, however, seems to be a key issue when discussing globalization. Globalization and development present two different factors in the world today. Many countries are lacking in their own development while the world around them is becoming more developed and globalized. Globalization hinders development because with globalization, less developed countries depend on more developed countries to help them to sustainability and self-reliance.
Globalization offers a higher standard of living for people in rich countries and is the only
Aspects of Globalisation The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defined globalisation as, 'The geographical dispersion of industrial and service activities (for example, research and development, sourcing of inputs, production and distribution and the cross border networking of companies (for example through joint ventures and the sharing of assets) Economic activity is becoming organised on a global scale giving a new international division of labour, with production, investment patterns and movements and technology transfers all becoming global. In this strategy, activities are established in many sites spread over the world, based on a country's comparative