Globalization
Globalization
Globalization
Introduction
Globalization refers to the rapidly
developing process of complex
interconnections between societies
Many, if not most, of the things we
National Income
Investment Income
International Tourism Traffic
Level & Indicators of Globalization
INDUSTRY LEVEL GLOBALIZATION-
Industry Exports
Foreign Investment in Industry
Investment Income
Liberalization to FDI
Freedom to FII
Foreign Investment
measure
Foreign portfolio
management
External commercial
borrowing
Benefits & Cost of Globalization
Benefits
• Faster economic growth
• Better living standards
• Democratization
• Free interchange of ideas, values; new opportunities
Costs
• Greater risk/variance in outcomes
• Greater income inequality
• Social dislocation
Marketplace doesn't always advance social
objectives
Challenges of Global Diversity
Diversity and complexity of systems that
transnational corporations face creates
challenges, for example
• If a company does business in a nation that
does not grant women equal rights, should
that company hire and promote women at
work, even if it violates local laws and
customs?
• Should a company enter into a business
venture with a government-owned enterprise if
that government has a reputation for violating
its citizens’ human rights?
Globalization : Good or Bad?
Economic globalization is good because
• Big firms means more efficiency
• A bigger economic ‘cake’ for al globally
• Free movement of money means that LDCs can develop
True : the world economy is bigger & more of the
world can afford modern consumer goods
Other positive benefits include the transmission
of common values on human & civil rights,
democracy and exposure to culture diversity
Resistance movements are in one sense a
symptom of the wider process
Globalization : Good or Bad?
BUT negative sides to (economic) globalization
Anti-globalization protesters highlight these at G8
summits
Key issues
• Effect on democracy & national governments
• Growing wealth inequalities
• Excessive power of TNCs & financial markets
Globalization benefits the wealthy at the expense
of the poor majority
Huge poverty still in Africa, Latin America & Asia
(in some place getting worse)
Also environmental destruction: Brazilian
rainforest, demise of big game in kenya, turtles in
the Carribean