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.
Whereas the twentieth century was marked
by the globalization of the world energy economy as countries everywhere turned to oil, much of it coming from the Middle East, this century will see the localization of energy production as the world turns to wind, solar, and geothermal energy.
For several decades, western colleges and universities have been lured into creating new initiatives outside of their countries» borders
by the globalization of higher education and its potential for improving education around the world, as well as for additional funding and branding opportunities.
It has to be recognized that the deterioration of conditions and the process of mass marginalization produced
by the globalization of the economic model is producing a certain amount of demoralization in certain Third World areas and that some too sanguine expectations of the Sixties and Seventies have to be reassessed.
They are concerned with living a faith threatened by the inhuman forces released
by the globalization of information, technology, economies and violence.
The demonstrable harm that has been done to so many people
by the globalization of the economy is becoming harder and harder to ignore.
The problem is exacerbated
by the globalization of food production, which means that most food must be shipped great distances at increased cost.
Therefore, we live in a world and time where humankind is threatened
by the globalization of poverty.
Another concern raised
by the globalization of the past two decades is the sheer size and power of TNCs.
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.
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.
In the book, they examine the repercussions on leadership
by combined forces
of globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization.
But the way to address those who have been left behind is to harness the growth opportunities digitization and
globalization bring
by getting more small businesses, more workers, and more parts
of the country to participate and benefit.
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 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.
Of note, Xi told the forum that
globalization was an irreversible trend, adding that China would do its part
by taking major measures to open up its economy as soon as possible and widen market access to foreign - funded firms.
They make up a massive and growing segment
of the workforce, and have character traits unique to a generation surrounded
by technology and
globalization.
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.»
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.
Although high finance obviously has been shaped
by the Industrial Revolution's legacy
of corporate finance, institutional investment such as pension fund saving as part
of the industrial wage contract, mutual funds, and
globalization along «financialized» lines, financial managers have taken over industrial companies to create what Hyman Minsky has called «money manager capitalism.»
But,
by creating multiple networks, alternative hubs can actually increase the resilience
of globalization, provided they are interoperable.
Hosted
by China's Ministry
of Commerce and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, with support from the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, the event aims to promote trade liberalization and economic
globalization, and actively open the Chinese market to the world.
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 in this... Read more
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.
Our economy is completely on its own, pulled this way and that, and ultimately down,
by faltering corporate
globalization and the catastrophic collapse
of American casino capitalism.
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.
Per recent surveys
by IBM, KPMG, and Gartner, you will find that more than half
of CEOs surveyed believe their organizations will be significantly transformed
by digital - centric
globalization.
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.
Globalization wreaks havoc on this primary life - giving relation, for example,
by separating women from their children across enormous geographical distances as they seek to secure the welfare
of their families.
The wider issue is that worries over identity have been exacerbated
by globalization and a wave
of religious revivalism across the board.
One
of the things Baudrillard noticed was an emerging «fourth world» made up
of «disintensifying zones» that had been left behind
by globalization.
The mainstream press would like us to believe that these events were driven primarily
by the economic stresses
of globalization.
An alliance forged
by the forces
of domination for profit becomes the driving force
of much
of globalization.
We can build this world
by seeking and discovering viable alternatives to neoliberalism and unilateral
globalization, alternatives based on the interests
of peoples and respect for national, cultural and religious differences.
Among the biblical myths
of human origin, two are particularly relevant to the problems raised
by globalization.
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.
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.
When there is economic pressure on a people due to the policies imposed
by the
globalization process, there could be an accentuation
of the differences among them based on cultural or religious factors.
I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind
of postmodernity which would postulate the death
of history,
of the human being and
of metaphysics undermines the kind
of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted
by capitalist
globalization.
Capitalistic
globalization, not being motivated
by ethical norms and concerns, does not pay adequate attention to the care
of nature and the preservation
of the natural environment for the good
of all life on earth.
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.
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.
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.
That is a principal aim
of the God and
Globalization volumes, edited
by Max Stackhouse and colleagues.