The Expansion Of The Global North And Global South
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Within the last few decades, some believe that “21st Century globalisation has an elephant in the room. It is that industrialisation, having elevated the developed world to middle-class mass consumer status, is now moving in space to the former colonies and time to the 19thcentury in terms of labour costs and conditions.” It seems as if the modern world system is moving back to its era of colonisation for promoting unequal power-relations between the global North and the global South. Of course, this notion holds the truth as the North is home to the powerful, global leaders who shaped the world structures and institutions under their capitalist free-market ideology. Meanwhile, the less developed ones usually lose in these exchanges. Hence, this essay argues that the prevailing form of the neoliberal economy allows wealthy, industrialised countries to extend influence and control into the underdeveloped world. The West-dominated international financial institutions such instance, as the IMF in pinning loans to particular actions and GAP as an example of a large multinational corporation utterly demonstrated the way weak countries are exploited through their forced, unfettered access to capital, labour, and natural resources.
The historical phenomenon of colonisation is one that stretches around the globe and across time. Back in its heydey, European empires were prompted to compete with each other in the quest for gold, glory, and gospel. Even though formal colonialism has
the containment of Soviet expansion around the world. The U.S. saw this expansion as the main threat to the west and to global security. To understand the U.S. fears during this war, one must understand the previous conflict that occurred in Korea.
The Korean War (1950 – 1953) was somewhat similar to that of the Vietnam War. The Korean War saw the attempted invasion of South Korea by the communist North Korea. This invasion saw the involvement of the U.S. who aided South Korea, and the People’s Republic
activities of multinational corporations (MNC’s) are tying national economies more tightly to one another, thus making globalization feature of the world economy. But is globalization a ‘PANACEA’ or a ‘PERFIDY’ to the economic development of the global south?. Brittan(1998) for instance define globalization as “a whirlwind of relentless and disruptive change which leaves governments helpless and leaves a trail of economic, social, cultural and environmental problems
Globalization, and the Persistence of the North-South Divide. Studies in Comparative International Development. p.3-31
Through the use of descriptive and comparative analysis, the authors intend on demonstrating that the convergence of the industrialization gap was not accompanied by a convergence in the income levels gap between former First World and Third World countries. Thus, the North-South divide still exists. Through economic models, the persistence of the North-South income divide is explained. Simultaneously
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