Although the life of the scientist may not be consciously global, the enterprise of science is permeated
by globalization in several distinct forms.
Not exact matches
It is a tough problem, because the twin forces of automation and
globalization are only escalating and the industrial capacity killed off
by the petroloonie is not coming back, even with the recent fall
in oil prices.
For all their drawbacks,
globalization and liberalized trade have been a force for peace
in the modern world; as national economies become more interdependent, they have more to lose
by alienating their trading partners, which aren't necessarily colonies or even allies.
In the book, they examine the repercussions on leadership
by combined forces of
globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization.
But it gets 98.5 % of its revenues from flights that both take off and land
in the U.S. — flights less likely to be delayed
by any of
globalization's uncertainties.
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 resource
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 resource
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 resource
in the north, driven
by climate change, shifting demographics,
globalization and the hunt for natural resources.
Timmer: Yeah, so if
globalization, which of course we've had since the early»90s but especially
in the 2000s, if the
by - product of
globalization is stronger global growth and lower inflation, then protectionism, I think is a form of deglobalization, and should bring the opposite.
There's much talk these days about the risks to the economy posed
by globalization, where problems
in one country spread to others.
Nevertheless, the fact remains: Tensions created
by globalization, and the way
in which nationalist parties continue to react to those tensions, will be important to monitor as they affect the European political landscape.
He explained that his comments, reported
by the Globe and Mail, have been taken out of context, saying: «
In the context of our current discussions over trade and globalization, China's policy in some regards is closer to Canada's policy than Canada is to the U.S.&raqu
In the context of our current discussions over trade and
globalization, China's policy
in some regards is closer to Canada's policy than Canada is to the U.S.&raqu
in some regards is closer to Canada's policy than Canada is to the U.S.»
Accordingly, as the European economic crisis continues to fuel nationalist ideology, STRATFOR expects the tension created
by globalization and its social and cultural effects to be an important element
in the European political scene
in the coming years.
In her speech, Yellen said that technology had allowed low - skilled jobs to be replaced
by automation while
globalization had also caused jobs that require less education to move overseas.
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.
While we were wowed
by the extent of the growth of small business
globalization presented
in this report, we weren't really surprised.
The outsider campaigns of Trump and Sanders, along with the realities of many people and communities hurt
by globalization, have elevated international trade as a major issue
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No analysis on how systematic wage arbitrage allowed
by trade
globalization between countries of very different income level within an exchange rate system allowing massive an persistent trade imbalances led to a massive opening up of compensation scales
in developed countries, as well as substantial under - employment.
The outsider campaigns of Trump and Sanders, along with the realities of the many people and communities hurt
by globalization, have elevated international trade as a major issue
in this election.
Last year, Xi Jinping defended
globalization and free trade
in the first - ever address given
by any Chinese president
in Davos, and rebuked many of Donald Trump's «America First» policies without mentioning his name.
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Donald Trump's ascension to the US presidency is being hailed
by some as the end of
globalization as we have come to know it
in the last four decades.
But even
in Davos, which is favored
by champions of
globalization, there is vocal opposition to trade from critics who say it has benefited the elites at the expense of the middle class
in many parts of the world.
A full - on
globalization backlash could undermine hopes for shifting away from secular stagnation
by derailing the nascent recovery
in investment spending and productivity growth
in the U.S. Global trade tends to boost productivity through fostering of competitive pressures, product specialization, scale economies, global value chains and technology transfer.
Therefore it is not surprising that theological thinking and mission praxis
in recent years is influenced
by globalization.
Fourth, once the idealism that has been captured
by the
globalization of the market collapses, the issues can be viewed realistically
in terms of who gains and who loses.
It has now been published
in three volumes
by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht: (1) First Light: The Formation of Harvard College
in 1636 and Evolution of a Republic of Letters
in Cambridge; (2) The «Augustan Age»: Religion
in the University, the Foundations of a Learned Ministry and the Development of the Divinity School; and (3) Calm Rising Through Change and Through Storm: The Contours of Religion and Commitment
in an Age of Upheaval and
Globalization.
Therefore, we live
in a world and time where humankind is threatened
by the
globalization of poverty.
Day
in and day out we are surrounded
by globalising developments viz., the emergence of the global communication industry; the phenomenal growth of transnational corporations; the dominance of finance capital;
globalization of poverty and hunger.
And some aspects of
globalization, such as the explosion of communications technology, can expand and strengthen religio - cultural diversity
in a world that is, at the same time, both linked and divided
by a near - infinite number of electronic bands, channels, websites, and whatever comes next.
Globalization can thus be defined as worldwide social relations which link distant localities
in such a way that local happenings are shaped
by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.
In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform of political, social, and economic systems of domination, today exacerbated greatly
by the phenomenon of economic
globalization.
In a largely homogenizing trend influenced
by two processes namely
globalization and Hinduisation, Dalits and Dalit Christians are still struggling for a Dalit identify of their own.
We have been moving toward
globalization for centuries, but the process was interrupted
by the communist revolution
in Russia, the Great Depression, World War II and the cold war that followed.
Globalization will fill it fuller for wealthy few»
by Xavier Gorostiaga
in National Catholic Reporter.
Globalization is the era of mega-competition,
in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit
by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also
by further destruction of environment.
Indeed, one of the most significant contributions of the volumes
by Stackhouse et al. is the inquiry into how religion
in various forms is — and should be — an actor
in globalization.
The increase of child labour
in Asia is apparently caused
by globalization.
However, ironically, the unprecedented scale of human suffering and misery caused
by harsh mega competition, liberalization of trade and investment,
in the era of
globalization motivates millions of victimized people to resist and fight back for survival and human dignity.
The negative impacts of
globalization such as deregulation policy are also felt
by women
in developed countries.
The sense of inescapability that pervades the book is strengthened
by the longer history
in which Friedman sets the current form of
globalization.
The difference
in wealth and incomes worsened
by globalization often makes the realization of these rights even worse
in the present world.
The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting
in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies,
globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated
by the IMF and the World Bank.
Book Review: Apologia: Contextualization,
Globalization and Mission
in Theological Education
by Max L. Stackhouse and others (Eerdmans, 237 pp., $ 14.95 paperback).
The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze
globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to
globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies
in the context of
globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected
by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed
by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up
in order to address the adverse impact of
globalization in the Asian context.
It must begin
by reversing the concentration of power
in the hands of a fewwhose interests are
in pressing the capitalist
globalization project still further.
Therefore there is a new demand on liberation theology to take into account the new dimensions of oppression and subjugation brought
in by economic
globalization.
If liberation theology arose out of a consciousness of the oppression of the people
by the capitalist system, then there is surely greater need of a theology of liberation
in this age of
globalization.
Globalization strategies
by the major transnational organizations now dominate the corporate scene, leading to a narrow specialization
in key sectors.
While
globalization has been largely made possible
by the Christian west, with its rapidly expanding technology and imperialistic ambitions, this does not make
globalization necessarily welcome
in non-Christian cultures.
In his breathtaking conceptualization of planetary life, he saw the emergence of the human species and the subsequent globalization of the planet not in terms of the conquest of the globe by Christianity but as the logical consequence of an ongoing evolutionary proces
In his breathtaking conceptualization of planetary life, he saw the emergence of the human species and the subsequent
globalization of the planet not
in terms of the conquest of the globe by Christianity but as the logical consequence of an ongoing evolutionary proces
in terms of the conquest of the globe
by Christianity but as the logical consequence of an ongoing evolutionary process.