Sentences with phrase «about by globalization»

All countries, rich and poor, are today facing the challenge of a deep mismatch between their legal infrastructure and the pace of change brought about by globalization, digitization, and the technologies of the future.

It is also important to note the need for legal compliance brought about by globalization of businesses has also created a special niche for lawyers dealing with business matters.

Through her installations and video works, Echakhch critically examines socio - political issues brought about by globalization, the way national symbols are used, as well as cultural differences and social phenomena, without however assuming a cautionary or rhetorical stance.

Educators, policymakers, parents, and others interested in preparing students to be productive global citizens will gain a clear understanding of what kinds of knowledge and skills constitute «digital competence» and «global competence,» and what schools can — and must — do to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization and technology.

The financial services industry (FSI) is currently in the midst of massive restructuring brought about by globalization and the introduction of new information technologies.

For example, people who have been affected by restructuring brought about by globalization often face difficult adjustments, including retraining and moving long distances.

Not exact matches

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

There's much talk these days about the risks to the economy posed by globalization, where problems in one country spread to others.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

The plight of the rural poor constitutes a crisis rapidly being made worse by corporate - led globalization, which offers significant benefit to only about 20 percent of the world's population.

What are we going to do about the middle class hollowed out by economic globalization?

While conceding that there is «some basis» for concerns about «the negative social effects of globalization», it contends that it is «not true that globalization is an overwhelming supra - national force that has largely usurped national policy autonomy...» It asserts that «national policies can, and should, give priority to mitigating negative effects on globalization» of financial markets), and the desperate and helpless attempts by the national regimes to come to grips with the soaring unemployment situation in the face of the continuing onslaught of the «supra - national» financial markets, the above bland assertion about «national policies» has an air of unreality about it.

The ecological crisis is accompanied by a social crisis brought about by economic globalization as a new form of colonialism.

Political commentators are right to point out voter concerns about immigration, economic distress caused by globalization, and the technocratic establishment....

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

(In Kinyarwanda with subtitles) Offshore (Unrated) Globalization comedy about a couple of telemarketers (Emily Rose Merrell and Deb Tunis) who decide to take revenge when their jobs are outsourced and they are asked by their company's CEO (Marty Bufalini) to train their East Indian replacements.

This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life

Although GCE is well recognized as a key dimension of education for dealing with the challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, consensus about what global citizenship means, and consequently what GCE should promote, is yet to be reached.

By day four of the Future of Learning (FoL) institute, Esther Carvalho, a principal of a two - unit school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was thinking a lot about globalization, the importance of teaching students to be good citizens, and ethics in the media.

That is when I decided to put the cryptanalysis plot into the context of what was happening in my country of birth, Bolivia, when I started to write the novel five years ago: the social unrest brought about by the crisis of neoliberalism and the protests against globalization.

As a recent article about the exhibition in Hyperallergic notes, the»90s was a decade that can be vaguely defined by the growth of globalization — particularly in the arts scene — an incipient Internet culture and the emergence of identity politics.

Robert Buck's canvas «At the end of the day...» (Holding area, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center, Nogales, AZ, June 18, 2014) insinuates questions about the nature of beauty and globalization — of civilization and its current discontents — by evoking luxury goods, fashion and décor.

Works by photographers Omar Victor Diop (b. Senegal, 1980), Hassan Hajjaj (b. Morocco, 1960), and Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (b. Benin, 1965) reveal the complex dialogues about aesthetics, identity, and globalization across history and geography.

A display of minimal furniture and fashion designs by Andrea Zittel is a dated non sequitur, and two large - format photographs by Andreas Gursky make a stale point about globalization.

About Wangechi Mutu: Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Mutu scrutinizes globalization by combining found materials, magazine cutouts, sculpture, and painted imagery.

By turning the gallery into a fully operational production site, he opens up for considerations not merely about trade and globalization, but also about individual relationships and communities, roots and migration.

«It's about the questions brought upon those communities by globalization and urbanization.»

Informed by his film background, Julien's gallery installations produce complex narratives that reflect critical thinking about race, globalization, and the politics of representation.

Indeed, if American legal education is truly serious about the globalization of law, we should demonstrate that belief by including global legal research in the toolkit of essential skills that students are expected to acquire.