Not exact matches
Laurence C. Smith, a UCLA earth sciences professor and author
of The World
in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raqu
in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources,
globalization and climate change will transfer
economic might to the north, says, «
In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raqu
In Canada
in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raqu
in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.»
Canada's trade agenda — and its difference to that
of its North American neighbor the U.S. — has made news at the World
Economic Forum (WEF)
in Davos, Switzerland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touting a «push back against the anti-trade tendency
in globalization that will leave us all worse off.»
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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 suc
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 suc
economic models exposed by the global
economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to suc
economic crisis, and whether China's type
of development might be less prone to such risks.
Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome
of abstract
economic forces, but none
of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs
in the US — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English),
globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope
of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline
of unions (union density remains high).
Globalization and the emergence
of new
economic powers
in Asia and Latin America have expanded the number
of connections but not the fundamental facts
of Canada's
economic situation or the policy environment within which we operate.
What today we call
economic globalization — a combination
of rapid technological progress, large - scale capital flows, and burgeoning international trade — has happened many times before
in the last 200 years.
In fact, Xi has begun to cast China as a defender of economic globalization and inclusivity, as well as a leader in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its economic interest
In fact, Xi has begun to cast China as a defender
of economic globalization and inclusivity, as well as a leader
in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its economic interest
in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its
economic interests.
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.
In their August 2016 paper entitled «
Globalization and Asset Returns», Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, Andrea Kiguel and Xiaozheng Wang examine whether
economic and financial integration increases global comovement
of country equity, bond and currency exchange market returns.
Over the last several decades
in America, our
economic prosperity has not been shared equally and the impacts
of globalization have taken a large portion
of the blame.
Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome
of abstract
economic forces, but none
of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs
in the U.S. — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English),
globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope
of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline
of unions (union density remains high).
Would the vision
of the leaders assembled at the Summit affirming their faith
in globalization becoming benevolent
in which
economic and technological progress distributed to unite rather than divide the community is a reality or just plain rhetoric?
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.
Capitalism which underwent different stages and the present phenomenon
of globalization ushers
in the ongoing process
of escalating social and
economic inequality.
In this construal, the end
of history — meaning, more or less, the
globalization of our kind
of political and
economic order — depended neither upon social contracts nor upon the promise
of covenantal purpose.
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.
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.
In this context of increasing injustices in the world, the religions could be a light to make us all aware of the false values of capitalistic globalization that can not bring happiness and peace to persons or a lasting solution to our social and economic problem
In this context
of increasing injustices
in the world, the religions could be a light to make us all aware of the false values of capitalistic globalization that can not bring happiness and peace to persons or a lasting solution to our social and economic problem
in the world, the religions could be a light to make us all aware
of the false values
of capitalistic
globalization that can not bring happiness and peace to persons or a lasting solution to our social and
economic problems.
Let me illustrate
in terms
of the
economic theory that supports
economic globalization.
They are
economic justice
in the context
of globalization and secular democracy
in the context
of the onslaught
of communalism and fascism.
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.
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.
The
economic thinking that supports the present
globalization of the economy arose
in Protestant Scotland.
We want a pluralism
of approaches, adapted to the complexity
of the objects and to the uncertainty surrounding most
of the big questions
in economics (unemployment, inequalities, the place
of financial markets, the advantages and disadvantages
of free - trade,
globalization,
economic development, etc).
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.
But by the same token, the nationalization — and
globalization —
of markets means that changes
in economic conditions nowadays affect all religious and cultural groups simultaneously.
The peoples
of Asia are those most effected by the market
globalization, as rapid
economic growth takes place
in some Asian countries.
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 issue
In connection with the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment
in Rio de Janeiro, Boff recognized the urgency of ecological issue
in Rio de Janeiro, Boff recognized the urgency
of ecological issues.
Beginning with the changes
in Eastern Europe, the world is
in the process
of a «re-constellation» which is characterized by the breakdown
of the cold war ideological polar structure, the realignment
of the military powers, the reordering
of the
economic powers, and the rapid
globalization of communication and cultural life.
Such intense mass agitations
in India have helped magnify the growing contradictions
of economic globalization: how by fostering rapid growth
in some sectors
of the economy it raises expectations everywhere, but by distributing its benefits narrowly, it expands the population
of the disenchanted and the frustrated, often making them vulnerable to populist politicians.
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.
Globalization has substantially contributed to the intensification
of debt, poverty and
economic crisis
in the developing world.
In this context,
globalization means global
economic liberalization, developing a global financial system and a transnational production system which is based on a homogenized worldwide law
of value1.
I do not mean to «rub this
in» too much, I have, however, been theologically amused and intrigued by those
in the ecumenical movement who have so negatively and critically spoken
of «
globalization», when all
of the time they exude and embody all
of the elements - intellectual, cultural, ideological,
economic and religious -
of a «global mentality» and a «global outreach».
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.
The transnational companies are the spearheads
of globalization and have become the dominant
economic and political force
in the world economy.
In the words
of James Petras,
globalization is «the product
of state policies linked to international
economic institutions» 2.
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.
Although
globalization and market liberalization have made some progress
in terms
of economic growth
in certain countries, it has also had many negative impacts
in developing societies.
It is
in fact an extension into the field
of higher education
of the government policy
of globalization, that is,
of letting the global market decide the pattern
of economic development
of the nation without intervention from the government
in the name
of social justice, protection
of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make
economic growth the ultimate criterion not only
of economic development but also
of social and cultural development
of the peoples
of the country.
In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin Americ
In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent
of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern
of development through
globalization with
economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts
in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin Americ
in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices
of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened
in Latin Americ
in Latin America.
In the context of a changing global nutrition landscape, influenced by economic and income growth, urbanization, demographic change and globalization, diet - related epidemiology has seen a significant shift in recent decade
In the context
of a changing global nutrition landscape, influenced by
economic and income growth, urbanization, demographic change and
globalization, diet - related epidemiology has seen a significant shift
in recent decade
in recent decades.
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.
His current research project examines the relationship between
economic globalization, differential power growth and interstate security competition, and his broader research interests lie
in the areas
of international relations theory (particularly realism), international security, international political economy, strategic studies, and UK foreign and defence policy.
Trump's Republican Party spoke to two groups
of American voters: the far right base
of the GOP, and to the near two - thirds
of Americans who feel the country is heading
in the «wrong direction» — many
of these will include America's working families, steelworkers and coalminers, bridge - builders and road - pavers, retail workers and restaurant staff to whom the socio -
economic forces
of globalization and stagnant wages have been woefully unkind.
The challenges
of poverty
in rural Ghana are tied to a long and rich history
of economic development and
globalization, archaeology and oral history reveal
Liberalization
of economic policies world - over, and various intergovernmental negotiations to open trades between different countries, have resulted
in globalization, which,
in my opinion, offers both tremendous opportunities, but also a few threats.
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.
«While
globalization has created a great deal
of debate
in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects
of the phenomenon remain unexplored.