Sentences with phrase «about the globalization of»

You hear about the globalization of economy; this is the globalization of disease.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Should you be afraid of globalization or excited about it?

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.

In passing, let me note Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Don Kohn's recent assessment of what we know about the impact of globalization on short - run inflation dynamics in the United States and elsewhere.

Their debate tends to be about just how many billion of dollars need to be delivered to banks and other financial institutions to keep the good ship globalization afloat.

At last year's meeting of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC), fears about the backlash against globalization and the election of new populist leaders with protectionist tendencies cast a pall over the discussions.

The winners of globalization are beginning to accept that they have relatively little to be upset about.

Sri says the author nails the limitations to retraining the unemployed, raising questions about a key tenet of globalization.

A couple years ago we began talking about peak globalization: the idea that countries are reversing their willingness to open borders and allow free flow of labor, capital, and goods.

According to reports, this speech will emphasize his «America first» agenda and could be incredibly critical of China and is more likely to reflect what we saw on the campaign trail about tearing down trade and reversing globalization.

In many ways, the Brexit vote has simply accelerated our prior view that growing populism would force politicians to address the concerns about the uneven recovery, income inequality and the pressure of immigration and globalization on wages in many developed countries.

A wise professor of ethics at the University of Chicago delivers on the subtitle of this book, «How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It.»

On a global level this concern about the gap in the control over and use of natural resources should be raised to gain a correct perspective on globalization.

It is this solidarity that makes us raise questions about the dominant models of globalization.

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.

One of the theoretical debates about globalization specifies the following possibilities:

The process of globalization tends to bring about a homogeneity of cultural behaviours throughout the world, at least in certain aspects of life such as in food, dress, leisure, music, and sports.

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.

Even more urgently we need a debate about alternatives to the current form of globalization — alternatives that would leave our grandchildren a more livable world..

In this we can again distinguish the scientific and technological changes brought about in modern times, alongside a humanistic culture and the unification of the world under capitalistic globalization.

The rich countries, that favour globalization, have been supportive of almost all the right wing dictators of the past few decades, at least till they were about to fall due to popular discontent.

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.

The geo - political change and resultant market globalization have brought about the fusion of the local, national, global and cosmic (natural) horizons.

The process of cultural globalization has given rise to a concern about the nationality of media - ownership.

The concern about the cultural and economic impact of cultural globalization is not restricted to Third World countries.

Many also have raised questions about the impact of globalization on the condition of women, on gender issues, on questions of migration, and as we are going to be discussing in this Consultation on the situation of human rights.

The question is about the implications of the suggestion that there is no clash between globalization to gather together scattered elements to its own center and integrate them into the fabric of the Church's life.

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».

Globalization in fact has unleashed a social revolution the significance and impact of which is at least as much as those that the Industrial Revolution which took place in the last century brought about.

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.

About the incomprehensible environmental devastation and the stark contrast between the haves and the have - nots and the adverse impacts of globalization that will make you want to come home and sell everything you own..

I'm sceptical about the possibilities of trying to replace a capitalist labour market with worker's co-operatives, property owning democracy, mutualism or workplace democracy, in contemporary globalization.

«What's fun about this job is that my portfolio is physical sciences, life sciences, behavioral / social sciences (including anthropology), economic sciences education, the environment and the international components, and the globalization of science,» Olsen says.

«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.

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

In this sense I think that Malcom McLean's [Marshall McLuhan]'s notion of a global village has been extended, if you like, because he was talking mostly about media; but it has been extended to products and to production and, in this sense of globalization, globalization depends on containerization.

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Hubert Sauper's harrowing, indispensable documentary about Tanzania presents the agonized human face of globalization.

In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.

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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.

(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.

«If we are serious about preparing students to understand globalization, we should treat this the way we treat any other subject about which we are serious,» says Reimers, director of HGSE's International Education Policy Program.

In those moments we can better understand the contours of the political frame of numerous political systems and thus understand what politics is truly about in the age of globalization.

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