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Global Policy Forum

A group of citizens from several countries founded Global Policy Forum in December 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations. At a time of rapid globalization, when nation states are weakening, the founders of GPF wanted to promote a more open, accountable and democratic policy process at the global level. Seeing the UN as the most open and universal institution, they sought to make it more responsive to citizen concerns, and so to foster democracy, social justice, human rights and mutual solidarity. GPF is based in New York City and has consultative status at the UN.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/

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Globalisation 'localises' inequality

John Vandaele, IPS. Is the big North-South-divide finally diminishing? It seems to be, though slowly. For the first time in decades, if not centuries, most of the so-called developing countries have seen their GDP grow faster during the last five years than that of the so-called rich countries (EU, U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia...).

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41549

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Globalisation and Change in Southern Laos

This paper analyzes the development situation in southern Laos. Although the geographical area under analysis may seem insignificant, southern Laos is remarkably appropriate as a case study of what happens when the multiplicity of changes known as globalization are let loose. The changes have started but haven't gone so far that we can no longer recognize the status quo ante. The context has many features that bedevil development efforts in other places - an important ethnic dimension; a weak government presence; a looming environmental crisis; and the usual bully-boy suspects (IFIs, local capitalist elite, big country neighbours, etc.). So anyone interested in development in the era of globalization should be able to find something here that can be applied to an analysis of the situation in other countries. (Jonathan Cornford, 28 March 2006)

http://www.focusweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=860&Itemid=30

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Globalisation and Development MA- IDS, UK

IDS is proud to announce a new Masters programme which includes a trip to China to witness the country's rapid economic growth. The innovative one-year Globalisation and Development degree starts in October 2008 and will provide a fresh perspective on globalisation.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectId=25D049F4-99DB-252E-471D59ED7514ADD6

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Globalisation And Dimensions Of Poverty (PDF)

By Olli Tammilehto, FINNIDA, 2003. Deals with the debate between various researchers and institutions concerning the relationship between globalisation and poverty and on the background to their disagreement. This study proceeds mostly on the global level but occasionally it deals with India.

http://global.finland.fi/english/publications/pdf/tammilehto_globalisation.pdf

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Globalisation and Employment in Bangladesh and Kenya (PDF)

By Kunal Sen, School of Development Studies and Overseas Development Group, University of East Anglia, U.K. (prepared as part of the DFID-funded project, 'Globalisation, Production and Poverty'). In contrast to the growing empirical literature that examines the labour market effects of globalisation in middle income developing countries, there are few studies that do so for the low income countries of South Asia and Sub-Saharran Africa. In this paper, we study the effects of globalisation on manufacturing employment in Bangladesh and Kenya, two countries that have witnessed rapid integration of their economies with the rest of the world in the past two decades. To assess the impact of increased open-ness on employment, we use the factor content, the growth accounting and regression-based approaches. (PDF-210KB)

http://www.gapresearch.org/production/Globkunalbgdken.pdf

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Globalisation and Poverty research programme.

A three-year programme of research exploring the linkages between globalisation processes and poverty. This site brings together findings from the research with the best materials on globalisation and poverty from around the world. Funded by DFID and hosted by IDS.

http://www.gapresearch.org/

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Globalisation in the Asia-Pacific Context [PDF -1640kb]

Department of the Parliamentary Library Research Paper No. 7 2001-02 ISSN 1328-7478 Professor Stuart Harris Consultant, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group 19 February 2002 "The paper begins by asking 'What is Globalisation?' and points out that the term itself is both imprecise and subject to contested definitions. Economic factors are central to globalisation, and many in the Asia-Pacific region would like to limit its effects to economics. However, the globalisation process also includes social, political and cultural links that-along with economic and technological links-tend increasingly to override territorial, legal and political barriers." [From Introduction]

http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/2001-02/02RP07.pdf

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Globalisation News

Powered by WorldNews.com this news service specialises in globalisation issues.

http://www.worldexploitation.com/

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Globalisation Research Network

Email messages related to the globalisation research network.

http://bank.rug.ac.be/global/email.html

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Globalisation, trade and trafficking in women in Latin America

While trafficking of women in Latin America is by no means a new phenomenen, existing from the end of the 19th century, the aim of this paper is to address some questions on the relationship between trafficking in women and modern neoliberal globalisation. The paper does this by analysing the Latin American situation, with a focus on MERCOSUR, offering recommendations to legislators and civil society in the region. (Norma Sanchis, Choike, November 2005)

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3641.html

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Globalisation: The Eight Crises of Social Protection (PDF)

A critical analysis of globalisation and its social impacts by Guy Standing, director of the Socio-Economic Programme of the International Labour Organisation. (Draft PDF 107Kb)

http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/DPRU/standing.pdf

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Globalisation: the good, the bad and the McFlurry

By Jacqui Zurcher, iafrica.com, Fri, 06 Jun 2003. Globalisation is a broad term associated with a number of factors such as increased global trade and the embracing of an international culture promoted by a globally dominant Western media. Barbie dolls in rural KwaZulu Natal, that sort of thing. I doubt Sven and Jurgen, our hardy anti-globalisation protestors, object to the existence of international trade. What they find problematic is the way it has been implemented to favour the world's powerful and wealthy nations. Being from the wealthy nations themselves, they altruistically claim that a myriad factors such as European and US farming subsidies and restrictive first world trade tariffs are increasing the economic rift between the developed and developing world.

http://iafrica.com/highlife/my_life/242144.htm

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Globalisation: the role of the IMF

This report is one output from an independent enquiry into the International Monetary Fund, conducted by a group of NGOs and selection of academic experts, the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The report deals first with defining a purpose for the Fund and, with this purpose in mind, it deals in turn with the governance of the Fund, its surveillance and analysis functions, its lending, its finances and the UK Government report on its dealings with the IMF. Among other things, t0t finds that the IMF has, in recent times, taken on too many roles; that the IMF should remain within its remit of crisis prevention,not extend its activities into areas of social policy and development it does not appear to be equipped to deal with; that the governance of the Fund should be made more accountable and transparent; that there should be movement to allow a fairer representation of the newly emerging economies; that poorer nations should not have to pay to gain access to the range of services the IMF can provide; and that funding for surveillance should be seen to be as independent as the actual analysis. (House of Commons Treasury Committee, 2006)

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmtreasy/875/875.pdf

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Globalisation: Who's To Blame For Negative Impacts?

By Judith Achieng' NAIROBI, Sep 7 (IPS) - Globalisation would not have produced much negative impact in Africa if governments consulted with trade unions to ensure that economic programmes meet social requirements like the workers welfare, according to trade union officials here.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/068.html

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Globalise Resistance

We don't have a million-dollar publicity budget like the big corporations we're fighting - we depend on you. Add your name to the Email list.

http://www.resist.org.uk

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Globalise Resistance

Globalise Resistance brings together groups and individuals opposed to the global growth of corporate power. Our world is not for sale!

http://www.resist.org.uk/

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Globalization and Goals: Does Soccer Show the Way?

Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, World Bank, 01/29/2004. Football, or soccer, is the most globalized sport in the world due in part to modern communication technologies and the removal of limits on the number of foreign players in soccer leagues. As players have begun to circulate freely among teams, these sports clubs have become more commercially-minded and focused on gathering the most talented or skilled players in hopes of winning games, boosting attendance, and increasing revenue. This free circulation of labor leads to an overall increase in output as the best players are paired with other top players on well-funded teams. However, as this improves quality of the game on the whole, it is accompanied by an increase in overall inequality. During this event, Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, World Bank, and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, presented his research which argued that free circulation of labor, increasing returns, and endogenous skills, under conditions of unequal initial distribution of resources, have produced an increasing concentration of outcomes in soccer results. He then argued that the same case can be made for incomes when labor is allowed to move freely. According to Milanovic, the results illustrate the need for global institutions, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in the case of soccer, to improve the outcomes of efficiency and inequality that have been unleashed by globalization.

http://econwpa.wustl.edu/eps/lab/papers/0312/0312001.pdf

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Globalization and the Challenges to Health Systems

Author(s): Frenk, J; Gómez-Dantés, O. Produced by: Health Affairs [Journal] (2002) This paper discusses the possibility of using health as an instrument of foreign policy and of developing new forms of cooperation around three key elements: exchange of experiences around common problems, evidence on alternatives, and empathy.

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7355/95

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Globalization Fight Continues

(CommonDreams) by Luke Eric Peterson, published on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 by the Toronto Star. "Exactly when is a victory a "victory" in the campaign against unfettered economic globalization? As protesters gather next week in Montreal at a meeting of world trade ministers, they can be forgiven for feeling more than a vague sense of déjà vu. Front and center on the World Trade Organization's agenda will be a proposal for a new Multilateral Agreement on Investment (or MAI). An earlier incarnation of the MAI was aborted in 1998 thanks to concerted global protests. The MAI would have set out a series of rights and protections for global businesses operating beyond their borders, without imposing any corresponding social or environmental responsibilities. And Naomi Klein, in her influential book No Logo, hailed the defeat of the MAI as the first "major victory" of an emerging global movement. But five years later, the MAI is back on the global agenda and is now being touted by some proponents as a potential boon for poor developing countries."

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0722-07.htm

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Globalization Good for Whom?

HBSWK Pub. Date: Jul 29, 2002 The rules of globalization aren't fair to poor countries, says Harvard University professor Dani Rodrik. In this article from Harvard Magazine, Rodrik, a specialist in international political economy, says it will take a lot of work to make globalization's rules friendlier to poor nations. But developing nations have responsibilities as well. by Dani Rodrik, Harvard Business School.

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070280.html

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Globalization in Retreat

This essay argues that, 15 years after globalization was touted as arreversible and the way of the future, what passes for an international economy remains a collection of national economies. These economies are interdependent no doubt, but domestic factors still largely determine their dynamics. Globalization, in fact, has reached its high water mark and is receding. (Walden Bello, FPIF, 27 December 2006)

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3826

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Globalization Map: Effects on Indigenous Peoples (pdf)

The IFG's Indigenous Peoples and Globalization program has completed a map depicting the negative impacts of economic globalization on indigenous peoples. The map provides a striking visual image of the totality of the problem. It offers a unique visual representation of globalization across the many sectors impacting native communities: oil, dams, biopiracy, logging, militarization, and industrial agriculture, to name a handful. The map also includes text describing the various impacts. There are examples from every continent, save Antarctica. The Bayaka in Central African Republic whose community is being destroyed by logging; the Dinka and Nuer in Sudan whose lands are being taken over for oil reserves; the WichÌ in Argentina facing a major highway through their territory; gold mining on Miskito lands in Nicaragua; eco-tourism on Kuna land in Panama; mining on Australian aboriginal lands; Jharkhand tribal community dislocation due to megadam project in India; industrial plantations destroying tropical forests on which the Dayak people in Indonesia depend; export coffee plantations evicting Montangards from their homeland in Vietnam; uranium mining, and the resulting toxic waste contaminating the ecosystem on which the Dene and Cree in Canada rely; overfishing jeopardizing survival of Chukchi and Eskimo in Russia; mining on North American indian lands, including the Western Shoshone, Quechan Nation, Mohawk, and Zuni peoples.

http://www.ifg.org/programs/indig/IFGmap.pdf

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Globalization Options for Africa

Globalization Options for Africa: an article discussing issues affecting integration of Africa into the globalised capitalist economy. Available online.

http://www.funnelheadinfo.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=17

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Globalization Tames the Left in Brazil

Writing for Yale University's Globalisation website YaleGlobal, American economist Thomas I. Palley examines why the current president of Brazil, Lula da Silva (from the left wing Workers' Party or PT), has done so little to tackle poverty and inequality in his country. Palley attributes Lula's failures to the following factors: the need to placate international investors and avoid capital flight; ideological surrender to neo-liberalism; and restrictive monetary policy which is obsessed with the need to stave off inflation and which, ultimately, leads to tax revenue being recycled to wealthy creditors. (Thomas I Palley, YaleGlobal, 5 September 2006)

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=8105

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