How does globalization affect cities? What are the major arguments in favour of globalization? What are some of the main benefits and costs of globalisation? Which is greater, the benefits or costs of globalization? What is the difference between financial globalization, gated globalization, and...
Explain the effect of globalisation in making rich richer and poor poorer. How does the foreign exchange market affect the global economy? Explain what happens if there is no trade in the world. How would this affect the economy as a whole if countries stayed self-sufficient?
These opportunities and dangers are daunting. But it is time to start weighing them and their implications for citizens and businesses. The biggest mistakes in economics are failures of imagination that reflect an assumption that today’s regime will last for ever. It never does. Change is coming...
Globalisation is still the driving force behind most economic activity, which is now dominated equally by the US and China. This has created a level of geopolitical stability, although this balance is continually being tested, especially in the digital sphere, where a handful of large firms domina...
I.A.2 - What does “anarchism” mean? Peter Kropotkin defined "anarchism" in theEncyclopedia Britannica (1910)as follows: Anarchism [is] the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government - harmony in such a society being obtained...
they also mark the painful emergence of a new regime in the world economy—a shift that may be as consequential as the rise of Keynesianism after the second world war, and the pivot to free markets and globalisation in the 1990s. This new era holds the promise that the rich world might...
but the recent digital revolution has accelerated and accentuated this. Digitalisation hasn’t directly enabled globalisation, but it certainly hasn’t restrained it either and one of its negative side effects has been a tendency toward polarisation, both in terms of individual incomes and market mono...
The question guiding this article is: What does the prominence of lifelong learning in SDG 4 mean for the human rights-based approach to ALE? I will approach the question by looking back at the history of adult education from the perspective of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cu...
Globalisation has been increasing over the last decades. The WTO explains that while there is no universally agreed definition of globalisation, economists typically use the term to refer to international integration in commodity, capital and labour markets.[2]Under t...
This, they may say (yes, of course, it all depends on what happens next) was the moment the 35-year long period of globalisation that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall gave way to a new era. It was the moment the prevailing assumptions among the governing elite - th...