How has globalization contributed to the wealth or poverty of nations?
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Globalization sends jobs overseas. More and more Americans are living in poverty.\n\nSome of the other nations are too poor to compete, so they stay in poverty.\n\nOnly the elite become wealthy from globalization.
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although it would be nice to have the rich nations help the poorer nations, it doesn't always work that way. Rich people hardly ever help poor people on a more personal level either. While I believe in the old theory "if you have, why not give" I also believe in the saying "if you give a man a fish, he will eat for one day, if you teach him to fish, he will eat for a lifetime." In this aspect I think "wealthy" countries should help set up programs, health care, etc. for the "poor" countries, but after a point they must withdraw as well. If not you will just create a nation that is dependent rather than independent.
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globalized they deal with china also. as well as many others. they take advantage of every opportunity. they have to. a lot of people are starving. but on a whole we are all globalized, since the Internet. more so everyday.
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It means the level of political, economic and social integration among countries.\n\nOften, it is "economic integration" as the primary topic of discussion when it comes to globalization. Interesting to note that the US is far from the "most global" economy in world history - the 19th century UK.\n\nYou can measure the level of a country's economic integration by taking the sum of imports and exports and dividing by total GDP.\n\nIt is a well-documented fact that economic globalization leads to the greatest level of prosperity for countries. \n\nPolitical integration? That's a different story.
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Corruption bleeds into every part of a nation.  Latin American countries are often teh victims of corrupt officials, which decreases their ability to form a working economy.  Every prosperous nation has something in common- in the begining, there was much strife, and the leaders sacraficed for the good of the people.  The nation's citizens work together for a common goal.  Free and prosperous economies don't develop in places where every individual is out for themselves.
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Well, it depends on how you define "wealthy"\n\nThere are several factors: Total GDP, Total GNP, GDP per capita, etc. that determine how "wealthy" a nation is...\n\nFor example, the United States of America might have the biggest GDP in the world, but a small country like Luxembourg might have the highest GDP per capita in the world.\n\nBut - recently - the United Nations ranked Norway is the world's richest nation.\n\nPersonally, taking an average of all the factors that make a country rich, I would say the USA is the richest country in the world.\n\n-Anand-
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The World Bank and IMF lends developing counties money on the condition the sell their commons (oil fields, water rights, power structure). Most of the corporations that buy them up are multi-national, so the nation losses the profits and taxes from the commons. This in turn drives the nation deeper in debt.
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How about the effects of globalization on the developing world?\n\nThe effect of global warming on the Arctic
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Sure it does.  Advertising contributes and speeds up globalization by getting the word out about new products or services that will save time or help out in some way.
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Globalisation means the world becoming A VILLAGE everything is within reach that distances are reduced and so there is faster and easier trade and communication among other things between the continents and countries of the world.
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Well at the beginning of history...we hunted and worked the land...you were either self sufficient or you died. Now there are people that have wealth and those that do not. This has nothing to do with how self sufficient you are, but more with your ability to make money. There are class systems in place "virtually" all over the world and in America there is everyday a greater separation of the classes...So poverty is undoubtedly a man made thing. And to Kartingmartin...above, I know loads of people that have been forced into poverty due to our ever weakening economy. Lots of people laid off and forced out of their homes who would disagree with you!!
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Our influence on other countries is definitely imperialism.  We have used the assets of other countries,  keeping rulers in power in those countries because they are friendly to us.  Allowing those rulers to get rich, leaving the people of their nations poor.\nConsuming the assets of all these nations to benefit a select, international group.  Global culture would be a wonderful thing, but that is not what is going on now.  What is happening with the World Monetary Fund and the one world movement is domination by international corporations, with no allowance for human rights, labor rights, environmental concerns or for human beings.  Only for capital.  US is just leading the way for international corporate domination of the world.
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How Capitalism Has Benefited the World
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Many poor countries are "developing countries," or "Third World," because they have low "human development." (1).  If "developing countries," can improve their standard of living by increasing life expectancy and literacy, decreasing population growth, and building infastructure, including schools, hospitals, roads, etc., then they could become richer.  (2).  \n\nThe "human development index" or (HDI) measures where countries are in development, and those countries that are low are "poor," and could become richer by improving their "human development," which includes: life expectancy, literacy, education, and standards of living.  (3) \n\nWhen countries can increase savings, increase reliance on the "rule of law," decrease corruption, decrease debt, increase investment in the country by large companies, and increase profits from world trade, then they could become richer!  (2).  \n\nGood luck!
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Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. source 1\nThe GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined. source 2\nNearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. source 3\nLess than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen. 4\n51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations. source 5\nThe wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation. source 6\nThe poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money. source 7\n20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods. source 8\nThe top fifth of the world’s people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment — the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%. source 9\nIn 1960, the 20% of the world’s people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as much. source 10\nAn analysis of long-term trends shows the distance between the richest and poorest countries was about: \n3 to 1 in 1820\n11 to 1 in 1913\n35 to 1 in 1950\n44 to 1 in 1973\n72 to 1 in 1992 source 11\n“The lives of 1.7 million children will be needlessly lost this year [2000] because world governments have failed to reduce poverty levels” source 12\nThe developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants. source 13\nA few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion people. source 14\n“The 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4 per cent of global exports.” source 15\n“The combined wealth of the world’s 200 richest people hit $1 trillion in 1999; the combined incomes of the 582 million people living in the 43 least developed countries is $146 billion.” source 16\n“Of all human rights failures today, those in economic and social areas affect by far the larger number and are the most widespread across the world’s nations and large numbers of people.” source 17\n“Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.” source 18\nAccording to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”\n\nThat is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year. source 19\n\nFor economic growth and almost all of the other indicators, the last 20 years [of the current form of globalization, from 1980 - 2000] have shown a very clear decline in progress as compared with the previous two decades [1960 - 1980]. For each indicator, countries were divided into five roughly equal groups, according to what level the countries had achieved by the start of the period (1960 or 1980). Among the findings: \nGrowth: The fall in economic growth rates was most pronounced and across the board for all groups or countries.\nLife Expectancy: Progress in life expectancy was also reduced for 4 out of the 5 groups of countries, with the exception of the highest group (life expectancy 69-76 years).\nInfant and Child Mortality: Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.\nEducation and literacy: Progress in education also slowed during the period of globalizatio
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There has been an increase in globalization in the United States as well as in rest of the world. This has resulted in many good things as well a lot of economic dislocation and unemployment.  It is not completely evil as you seem to assume. Read Thomas Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree".\n\ncc
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There are many issues causing poverty - there is inequality, human rights issues, lack of education, lack of access to information, unfair trade practices ... so reducing poverty in this millenium is a difficult although attainable goal.  There's also talk of the Milllenium Development Goals which multialteral development insitutions are inviting all governments and NGOs to help in achieving. I hope this will help you attend that lecture better.