Sentences with phrase «about globalization for»

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He later quit his job at the bank to pen Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, an extended argument for how expensive oil would bring globalization to a halt.

What is clear is that NAFTA remains a lightening rod for political opinions about globalization and free trade generally.

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.

It provides a hopeful framework for thinking about the next phase of globalization and digitization.

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.

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

While expressing skepticism about the import of economic reforms on the situation of poverty and injustice, the President observed that, `' the three - way fast lanes of liberalization, privatization and globalization must provide safe pedestrian crossing for the unempowered.

We need the debate for which Friedman calls about how to adjust to globalization.

However, for the sake of promoting the globalization of the economy, the United States government has led in founding institutions that can overrule decisions about these matters made within the nation.

When used in the historical terms with which I prefer to use it, globalization in so many ways sums up the dominant and encompassing reality (note that I underscore this word) of the collective life of people and nations in our time, so potent and full of issues and questions for or against human development, so that it presses upon everyone who wants to make sense of the times in which we live, or who wants to be concerned about «keeping and making life more human».

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.

Historically, children have been excluded from research about globalization and democratization, and recommendations for interventions and policies that would promote child well - being are discussed.

The Other End of the Line (PG - 13 for suggestive material) Globalization romantic drama about a credit card company operator (Shriya) from India who travels from Mumbai to San Francisco to rendezvous with a customer (Jesse Metcalfe) she fell in love with on the telephone.

We filled in the script at points (where it needed it) and really worked hard on that whole speech about globalization and buying the presidency because we wanted to justify why my character would (suddenly) turn after working for the government for so long.

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.

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With the globalization of business and exchange of goods and services, technology and investments it becomes sure to come about for various nations administrations to pull through and maintain in the long run.

Chef Perry Mamaril of NYC's Purple Yam & Kuma Inn will prepare fish balls (or a vegetarian alternative) for 15 lucky guests (so RSVP and get there early) and lead a discussion about the globalization of food.

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.

Visit the Guggenheim for Found in Translation, an exhibition about globalization that looks back on social history and current political issues.

While her improvised, thrift - store DIY aesthetic smacks of the populism of this year's Whitney Biennial and her global themes and global identity (she is a black South African woman and an international artist) should have made her a shoe - in for Documenta XI, Rose's videos are ultimately as much about her art practice — a fine combination of video, performance, and photography — as about any «issue» of identity or globalization.

Tools for researchers, water managers, community organizers, journalists, and just about anyone who is studying the issues of freshwater resources, climate change, environmental justice, and globalization.

You know, the truly astonishing thing is that we hear that phrase (that we can't afford to do anything about our ecological overshoot because there are so many hungry peoplle) all the time, yet those are the same people who are strictly against what they call «wealth redistribution» and who are all for «globalization» and «free markets», the resukt of which over the last few decades has been that the gap between rich and poor has only gotten bigger and bigger.

He claims that movement founder Rob Hopkins (see my interview with Rob Hopkins for more on his philosophy) talks «almost cheerfully about passing peak oil, widespread food shortages and the idea of globalization crashing suddenly» and he quotes Jennifer Gray, founder of the US arm of Transition, as telling the New York Times that she expects a «a big population die - off.»

When Michele DeStefano's dean at the University of Miami School of Law was looking for ideas about a globalization conference, DeStefano proposed something more than your usual panel of talking heads along a table.

Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything about our world and as lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us about what it means to be a lawyer, the market for legal services, how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and how we do them.

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.