GLOBALIZATION
Pros Cons
The proponent of global free trade
say globalization promotes most effective global economic growth, creates
jobs, makes competition among companies.
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The general complaint is that
globalization had made rich richer and non-rich poorer.
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Because of globalization there are
worldwide market for companies and consumers to access products from
different countries.
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Multinational corporations are
accused of social injustice, unfair working conditions as well as poor
environment, mismanagement, ecological damage.
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There is more influx of information
between companies from different countries
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Many people are worried that corporation
are ruling the world because they gain power through globalization.
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Through globalization, each
countries can share their cultures.
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Anti-globalists claim that
globalization makes companies to earn money without using enough efforts.
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Because of globalization, people
who works internationally will not be considered as aliens.
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Anti-globalists also claims that
globalization is not working for majority of the world, riches 20% of the
world’s population consume 86% of world’s resources and poorest 80% consume
just 14%.
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kmp!
ReplyDeleteKMP! You make a good point about anti-globalists claiming that globalization - in particular large multinational corporations like Nike, Starbucks, or even Samsung - make money without giving their workers in foreign countries proper compensation. Look at, for example, the Bhopal gas disaster:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster