is globalization a threat or opportunity for developing countries in terms of their economic activity?
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Absolutely an opportunity. Everyone gains from free trade (theory of comparative advantage) this has been emperically proven to be the case for previously developing nations such as South Korea. If anyone can provide a legitimate economically sound reason why globalization would be bad for a developing nation I would be very surprised.
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A developed country will have the major technological advancements, good roads, a stable government, stable communication devices, etc.\n\nA developing county is working to attain these things, but may not have reached them yet in some or all areas. These countries sometimes can be third world countries or once third world countries that are now better. Coutnries that have been stricken by war, disease, poverty, famine, natural disasters, etc. usually fall into this category.
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try the World Economic Outlook Database sponsored by the International Monetary Fund.  They show annual growth rates in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for a lot of countries, including developing countries.  You can also look at regional aggregates
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Developed nations are those countries with high standard of living for the generality of its populace.\nA developed country usually has good economic indices (in terms of per capita income, GDP, growth rate of the economy, level of unemployment etc)\nFor a country that wants to be "developed", it has to work towards improving those indices mentioned above.
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Well there's the debate whether if those effects are positive or negative in first and third world countries.  In a little more than 10 years after the creation of the WTO the world's poor nations became poorer and the rich nations wealthier.  I think any economic policy to be implemented ought to involve social development as well... it doesn't make sense to make the global exchange more efficient if the majority of people will suffer from it in the end.
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This kind of question should be answer by someone in India. Globalization can be good to India, because a lot of entreprises can open factories there or not,  move that factories to another place. Globalization doesnt mean free buying without taxes in all world, that only happen in countries in EU. Now Africa countries to export their produts have great problems because taxes are high, that's one of the reason of poverty in Africa. Globalization helps or can make very bad situation in different country, its the democratization of all. Internet, for example is the globaliztion of information!!! A entreprise can leave one country bcs pay too much to their employees and open a factory on India because is cheaper, and that will be good to your country. Globalization is opening everything, there are people says is capitalism in his worse way. About food procesing industry u have to see in local in India.
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(m)\n\nOne of the demerits of the globalization, illegal immigration of poor people to the advanced countries, becomes a serious problem in the world. As the concepts of globalization spreads around the earth, there is a noticeable distinction between the rich and the poor especially in a backward nation. As a result of that, even illegally, the poor people decide to go to other country for their dreams.
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No of course not.\n\nIf you have even a reasonable education you are in little danger of losing your job to an illegal.  It's just blatant conservative scare tactics at work.\n\nOutsourcing is a totally different issue.  Guess that's what "globalization" means, though ...
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It is great between equals. However it encourages slavery and unethical business practices in cases where it isn't between equals. \n\nIn essence globalization helps the business owners and investors in well off countries. It slows economic progress in countries that aren't well off as owners and investors get to dictate too many terms that they shouldn't have available to them. The only way to correct this situation is to get better laws into 3rd world nations, which owners and investors don't want and, under most of these free trade agreements, have the ability to stop. Or to remove those protection here in the US and let americans be hung out to starve. \n\nMillions of different products are produced in 3rd world nations and shipped to America. Most of the workers making those products aren't paid enough to buy one of the products they make, whether that be roses, batteries, or cars. We are not doing them a favor.
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when america took over iraq and put its fast food, banks, and other american poisions thats globalization. When countries that dont have phone lines start using cell phone technology instead of any natural progress, thats globalization. When hurricane  or other natural disaster victims recieve relief, thats globalization. When children build foreign products, thats globalization. Basically its not america the melting pot, its now becoming the global melting pot.
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GLOBALIZATION\n\nThe politicians are being bribed to destroy America, we call these bribes campaign contributions. Monied interests who want to unify the Western Hemisphere into a single trade bloc from Canada to Chile have been supporting politicians who will make laws and policy decisions to bring about this goal. For years the ground work has quietly been laid, NAFTA, lax border enforcement, foreign aid to developing nations to impoversh those nations and make them subject to foreign money manipulation.\n\nWith the flood of illegals in the US the main opposition to this trade bloc, the US middle class, is being eliminated. Soon the middle class will vanish and there will be no group with the political will to resist the New World order being constructed against our interests.\n\nSo by allowing this massive influx of people into our nation it will destroy the middle class and stop the opposition for these trade blocs and ultimatly a New World Order.
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I’ve never studied Economics, so please forgive me if I write something stupid...\n1. What is the reason for globalisation? It’s the needs and the expansion of companies.\n2.  What can be the consequence? Strong interdependence and a lot more. We know from history that a best example what can happen was the Great Depression of the 1930s or the Oil Crisis in the 1970s. In the present news are all about this problem. If there were no duties, the poor areas (Africa, Asia, South America) could either rise or fall even deeper.\n\nThat’s all I can figure out on my own.\nHere’s a more professional aid:
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Try these websites for information on globalization:\n\nhttp://www1.worldbank.org/economicpolicy/globalization/\n\nhttp://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm\n\nCovering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term “globalization” has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In popular discourse, globalization often functions as little more than a synonym for one or more of the following phenomena: the pursuit of classical liberal (or “free market”) policies in the world economy (“economic liberalization”), the growing dominance of western (or even American) forms of political, economic, and cultural life (“westernization” or “Americanization”), the proliferation of new information technologies (the “Internet Revolution”), as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realizing one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have vanished (“global integration”).\n\nhttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
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Global trade; Globalisation\n\n\nTrade will help bring countries togeather. Stop future unrests between countries.\n\nMakes countries and industries iterdependant so that the global and local economies will become more stable. \n\nBring better living conditions to the Indians through the infusion of new technologies in to their industries. \n\nBad: India is a very self sufficient nation; and very powerful too. Promoting global trade will greatly help India become a major powerhouse which will be a large threat to the developed nations.  \n\n\nSorry if i deviated from the point. Hope this helps
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Globalisation, in my opinion, started several centuries ago. The way Budhism spread from India to the far east is a case in point. The building of temples and social and economic thinking, to the East from India is a classical case of globalisation.\nHowever, the concept took a new meaning with the discovery of the New World in the 15th/16th Century. The engine to the discovery was to bring spices, gold and other precious commodities to Europe. Some form of Economic Imperialism.\nIn the 1970's, the US and Europe, went on the globalisatin spree, as we know it now. This was particulaly the case with the large multinationals, who saw tremedous opportunities in the low cost economies, and the large markets, which would give them further opprtnities to grow.\nHowever, I believe, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg for economic globalsation, as I see further opportunties with the process.
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Globalization can usefully be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions, generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction and power. \nIt is characterized by four types of change:\n- First, it involves a stretching of social, political and economic activities across political frontiers, regions and continents.\n- Second, it suggests the intensification, or the growing magnitude, of interconnectedness and flows of trade, investment, finance, migration, culture, etc.\n- Third, the growing extensity and intensity of global interconnectedness can be linked to a speeding up of global interactions and processes, as the evolution of world-wide systems of transport and communication increases the velocity of the diffusion of ideas, goods, information, capital, and people.\n- Fourth, the growing extensity, intensity and velocity of global interactions can be associated with their deepening impact such that the effects of distant events can be highly significant elsewhere and even the most local developments may come to have enormous global consequences. In this sense, the boundaries between domestic matters and global affairs can become increasingly blurred. \nIn sum, globalization can be thought of as the widening, intensifying, speeding up, and growing impact of world-wide interconnectedness. By conceiving of globalization in this way, it becomes possible to map empirically patterns of world-wide links and relations across all key domains of human activity, from the military to the cultural.\n\nFrom the pre-modern, through to the early modern (1500-1800), modern (19th to early 20th century), to the contemporary period, distinctive patterns of globalization can be identified in respect of their different systemic and organizational features - uneven as they often are. These patterns constitute distinctive historical forms of globalization. By comparing and contrasting these changing historical forms, it is possible to identify more precisely what is novel about the present epoch. \nAccordingly, to advance an account of globalization it is necessary to turn from a general concern with its conceptualization to an examination of the key domains of activity and interaction in and through which global processes evolve.
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The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is productivity.  The Chinese government provides incentives for investment in capital and training that yield high levels of productivity and quality.  China's ability to produce quality goods continues to grow each year.  This is due to significant investments in state of the art manufacturing technology.  There are many hidden costs that offset the labor savings associated with Chinese manufacturing.  These include logistics, inventory, timeliness, and the potential for loss of intellectual property.  With the proper investments, U.S. manufacturing can compete in medium and low volume manufacturing because the potential downsides outweigh the labor savings.  \n\nPolitically, China is definitely a threat.  As the Chinese middle class develops, their market will continue to grow.  This will be especially true when the currency is allowed to float.  This will put pressure on the U.S. as China develops into an economic superpower, and naturally pursues its spot as a political superpower.\n\n5,000 years of Chinese history indicate that the Chinese are not focused on global domination.  The meaning of the word China in Mandarin is Middle Earth.  The culture reinforces the fact that China is the center of the world.  They are focused on bettering their world, not destroying ours.  We must produce policies that realistically address the changing dynamics of the geopolitical environment to ensure that we do not become an unintended casualty along the way.