Sentences with phrase «economic globalization for»

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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 sucEconomic 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 suceconomic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to suceconomic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Globalization and the economic interdependence that it implies are nothing new for Canada.

Tensions caused by globalization and the information revolution have led to economic insecurity for many, and that backlash has benefitted populists.

In advanced economies across the globe, expanded trade and globalization face an existential crisis: for large swaths of the European and American electorate, the current trade model is non-representative, undemocratic, and perceived — often justly — as contrary to their economic interests.

For example, between 1960 and 1980, the figure above quoted had fallen to around 25 per cent, but the following decades of aggressive neo-liberal economic - corporate globalization we could witness alarming inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income that we have ever witnessed in the history of humankind.

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.

The advocates of «globalization» described it as the panacea for all economic woes, and that the only path to prosperity is to adhere to free - market principles.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

There is a clear demand on the part of the Christians in India to work for economic justice especially in view of the swifter and greater marginalization of the poor as a result of economic reforms under globalization.

But economic globalization, a signature feature of the late modern world, and precondition for today's rapid growth in China and elsewhere, is excoriated again and again.

a time which is no longer characterized by military Governments, but more by economic globalization and its — for many — disastrous economic and ecological consequences.18 In connection with the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro, Boff recognized the urgency of ecological issues.

K.C. Abraham points out that «Globalization has become a vehicle of cultural invasion», leading to «a mono - culture that suppresses economic, ecological and cultural diversity, and has a tendency to accept efficiency and productivity without concern for justice and compassion towards people».6

More importantly, globalization is being held out by its advocates as the panacea for all our economic woes.

They closely tie economic Globalization from Above to the political aspect in that (1) the source of pressure for change is the same, and (2) close links are alleged between the ideologies of free markets and free societies.

One such question is whether globalization of market - oriented economic system is essential for development and protection of human rights?

One is to provide a foundation for it in the experience of the poor, and in the message of the cross because it is the poor who suffer most by the economic effects of the globalization of the market.

Economic inequality, war, political instability, systemic injustice, inadequate education, media penetration, migration patterns, corrupt governments, environmental disasters and other factors related to globalization contribute to the conditions necessary for human trafficking.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

A University of Kansas (KU) researcher studying trade and globalization has found that the shift to «technified» coffee production in the 1970s and 1980s has created harsher economic and ecological consequences for heavy coffee - producing nations, such as Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Vietnam and Ethiopia.

Despite unprecedented growth in the global economy since 1992, governments are trapped in making insatiable demands for still more unsustainable growth and rising inequity to remedy problems that economic globalization itself has caused.

This manifesto calls for action that helps move simultaneously toward a more localized socio - economic structure and toward a supra - national mindset that helps us transcend the parochial concerns of a corporate - capitalistic globalization to activate a global citizens movement.

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

Despite unprecedented growth in the global economy since 1992, governments are trapped into making insatiable demands for still more unsustainable growth and rising levels of inequity to remedy problems which economic globalization itself has caused.

Two Economists on School Reform: We Know (A Few) Things That Work Wall Street Journal, 3/19/14 «Professors [Greg] Duncan and [Richard] Murnane previously have argued that the economic forces of technology and globalization are driving a wedge between winners and losers in the U.S. economy and making it tough for schools to help children from low - income families to get the skills they need to compete.»

In the resulting book, I will develop the theoretical concept of «borderless education»; present a series of narrative portraits that examine how transnational actors engage with the structures, content, pedagogy, and purposes of education in conflict settings; explore how this transnationalism is distinct from traditional aid and may address challenges of access to learning in conflict settings; and investigate the implications not only for conflict settings but also other situations of uncertainty, be that economic, political, technological, or related to globalization processes.

Previously at Harvard for over 20 years — most recently as director of the Center for International Development — Sachs is known as a leader in sustainable development, as well as an expert in economic development, environmental sustainability, and globalization.

In a middle school social studies class, for instance, students may begin studying the controversial topic of globalization by identifying the Pacific Rim countries that belong to the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperative and by searching for patterns within and among those countries.

Congressional gridlock has scuttled the prospect of boosting funding for infrastructure projects such as ports and public transit, and economic pressures from globalization have hurt the US's skilled workforce, the report said.

Starting in Bronze - Age China and India, Beckert weaves thousands of years of cotton's history into an intricate panorama of globalization; interconnected economic, social and political systems; and the technological innovations that became the impetus for the Industrial Revolution.

Disrupting visual perception, her scraps of materials take on new life, becoming a vehicle of spiritual agency for the artist amid the pressures of economic and political globalization.

He is known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization, with specific focus given to the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.

As the speed and fluidity of economic, intellectual, and political exchange increases powered by the motor of globalization, the stability of a singular public has given way to the proliferation of porous publics, calling for a reassessment of the status of the contemporary museum as such.

Disrupting visual perception, her scraps of materials take on new life, becoming a vehicle for territorial reclamation and spiritual agency for the artist amid the pressures of economic and political globalization in the Anthropocene.

His latest creation, «Empires,» commissioned for the Paris Monumenta art show, which begins on Sunday and runs through June 18, will take on the realms of military history and economic globalization.

It is possible for people to see how life as we know it and the integrity of Earth could be put at risk in these early years of Century XXI by economic powerbrokers and their bought - and - paid - for politicians, whose idolatry of economic globalization rules the world now.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

What scientific evidence, sound reasoning or common sense explanation can provide a foundation for expanding unbridled economic globalization even one more day, for increasing unrestrained per capita consumption beyond its present conspicuous level for one more week, and for condoning the projected addition of 70 to 80 million members of the human community in this year alone?

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

Thanks to you for rational proposals in a currently unreal world order dominated by unbridled, soon to become patently unsustainable economic globalization.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Vincent Nijman, the conservation biologist who authored the report, argues that current regulations on the legal wildlife trade are too lenient and lack the resources necessary for realistic enforcement.Southeast Asia is a hub for the international wildlife trade; an industry fueled by globalization and increased economic prosperity in the region.

In the middle of last night's standoff in Liberty Plaza over cleaning of the quasi-private space that Occupy Wall Street has been occupying for four weeks (thankfully and sensibly defused), a call to action was issued, blaming economic neoliberalism (colloquially today, globalization) for much of the socioecologiconomic problems we're facing.

The internet is effusively praised as having already become the single «most powerful force for globalization, democratization, economic growth and education in history».

Of course, globalization and emerging markets are nothing new for international law firms — the big push for many took place in the 1990s — although the effects of the financial crisis and economic downturn have caught up with many U.S - headquartered firms who could previously rely on a strong domestic market to keep the money coming in.

They will have to appreciate not just the legal implications of globalization for their clients, but the regulatory, economic, cultural and political ramifications for their own firms.

According to the World Economic Forum, This is the technology that could help us make globalization work for everyone — «The challenge that lies ahead is how to make globalization work for everyone, not just privileged few.

Globalization and the increased interconnectedness of economic markets means it's vital that real estate pros everywhere understand the motivating factors for foreigners who want to buy residential property in the United States.

«I don't think it's perfect and certainly there have been some downsides to globalization, but there isn't any doubt that it's been a positive force for economic growth and U.S. economic growth as a whole.