GLOBALIZATION

Globalization



Globalization

Introduction

Globalization means increased interconnectedness, the expansion and deepening of various social, economic and political, the growing interdependence of all societies together, promoted by increased financial flows, financial and communications. Globalization has benefited from the explosive development of two sectors, considered the mainstays of modern society: the financial markets and the media. The financial statements are immaterial, immediate, permanent and global, exchange instant day and night, data from one extreme to another land. In this global financial market, the major collectors and at the same time recipients of funds, are the rich countries. Media: consists of a knowledge revolution that is added to the rapid and massive dissemination of information. In the economic dimension of globalization, it can be understood as a new phase of expansion of the capitalist system that is characterized by the opening of national economies, by increasing international trade, expansion of financial markets, the spatial reorganization of production The ongoing search for comparative advantage and competitiveness that gives priority to technological innovation, the emergence of high unemployment and falling wage levels.

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Globalization has become almost commonplace in the justification of any measure or in the interpretation of changes that occur both in public and in private. Its spread seems to derive from one's own ability to explain the task force for a number of changes that occur and impact on everyday life with extraordinary toughness. Globalization appears to be the most important issue of social sciences since the late 90's. The key phrase is repeated continually refers to "the challenges posed by globalization," and also appears as the main justification for public policies to be adopted by very unpopular or they can be painful. In this phenomenon, the views are very diverse, where there is a position that is absolutely true and they are in the rugged field of opinion, and that is why everyone tries to analyze the main arguments for and against the development of globalization process (Mander, 1996).

Globalization is a heterogeneous phenomenon that applies to goods, services, capital and, quite unequal to men. The forces of global economy destroy the bonds of solidarity between citizens, further enrich the most highly qualified while others condemn the deterioration of living standards, particularly those with a production job or service personal character, condemned to a more unstable and weak earnings. The gap opens between rich and poor and the dispossessed of the world plunged into poverty to a growing number of people in the Third World. Despite all the promises of the 90, that globalization reduced poverty in the world and it increased the number of poor since then in almost one hundred million people. In the same period it increased world income by an average of 2.5 percent. In Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia and other transition economies, globalization and the introduction of market economy did not bring the expected gains. On the contrary, globalization has led to a poverty level hitherto unknown. To understand the mistakes made, everyone would need to draw attention to ...