The demonstrable harm that has been done to so many
people by the globalization of the economy is becoming harder and harder to ignore.
Not exact matches
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.
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
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.
For example,
people who have been affected
by restructuring brought about
by globalization often face difficult adjustments, including retraining and moving long distances.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Writing at a time when the signs of
globalization were not nearly as obvious as they are today, he foresaw a process he called «planetization»,
by which «
peoples and civilizations reach such a degree either of frontier con - tact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they can no longer develop save
by the interpenetration of one another».3 Teilhard de Chardin wholly identified with the traditions of the Christian west, yet his visionary mind was able to lift the Christian themes and symbols out of their traditional usage and re-interpret them.
At first,
globalization seemed perilously close to being Europeanization, but in the latter half of the twentieth century European supremacy has been modified, partly
by the spread of Indian, Chinese and Japanese
people, and partly because some of the colonized
peoples took the opportunity of their imperial citizenship to settle in Europe.
As the OECD has pointed out, most of these
people were lifted out of poverty
by the
globalization and expansion of trade since the end of the Second World War, the largest shift out of poverty in human history.
The
peoples of Asia are those most effected
by the market
globalization, as rapid economic growth takes place in some Asian countries.
As the process of
globalization continues to expand, more and more
people find themselves in one place, while their lives are structured and oriented
by connections to one or several other places.
«I think
people in the United States in general and the U.S. Congress generally have been slow to understand the changes brought on
by globalization, and the intense competition it's brought,» he said.
This list of the pros and cons of
globalization attempts to give a summary of the essential for and against arguments employed
by people when they debate the favorable and the unfavorable factors or reasons; advantages and disadvantages.
Probably the word «global» will arise fierce polemics, since in Brazil it is associated with the predatory
globalization in which it is inscribed the colonization imposed
by the Europeans upon other
peoples in the planet, that was initiated in the 15 th / 16
However, this new approach drained young
people from communities hard hit
by globalization, fracturing the political coalition supporting education.
Linking the movement of
people at that time to the experience of
globalization today adds to the urgency of understanding the artistic strategies and modes of resistance
by artists that took part in the fascinating story of kinetic and op art from these regions.
Pope.L is included in The Barnes Foundation's exhibition,
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which features work
by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics,
globalization, racism, and homelessness.
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie features work
by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics,
globalization, racism, and homelessness.
If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic
globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion
people,
by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more
people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we «free wheelers and dealers» desire.
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 left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic
globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion
people,
by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more
people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we desire.
A memorable display, and prayers
by the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers was an omnipresent reminder of the indigenous
people that continue to fight for mother earth and the preservation of their way of life against the tentacles of
globalization.
This stabilization was due to: 1) Social effects of
globalization that reduced reproductive rates below replacement levels, 2) Several genetic engineering disasters between 2020 and 2035 that killed tens of millions of
people, 3) A nuclear exchange in the MidEast in 2021 that lead to a mini - «nuclear winter,» cutting average temperatures
by five degrees for a year, and 4) A punitive tax on non-renewable carbon - based energy quadrupled costs and led to more efficient use of energy resources.
Yet now, across the world, there are
people left behind
by globalization, and movements for withdrawing from global connection.»
People are working more hours than ever before, while cost of living, overpopulation, and
globalization heighten the stress of just trying to get
by.