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Globalization's Watchdogs

When Bolivian President Evo Morales announced plans to nationalize his country's oil and natural gas resources in early May, he did more than lay out a promising path for development. He also provided an ideal opportunity to illustrate how large segments of the U.S. and British press have adopted roles as watchdogs for corporate globalization. Despite the general trend, there were some levelheaded voices in the media. These exceptions went far in debunking many of the Evo-bashers' doomsday scenarios. And amidst the anti-nationalization hysteria, a basic principle about democracy was one point that the critics consistently miss. Morales was elected in a landslide on a platform vowing nationalization. This time, when democracy and neoliberal economics collided, democracy won. (Mark Engler, Foreign Policy In Focus, 26 May 2006)

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3284

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Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done? [PDF - 111KB]

The paper - written for the United Nations University Worldwide Institute for Development Economics Research - studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper takes the view that curbing these, even within one country, requires global, cross-country policies that we do not currently have, and advocates the setting up of an international initiative to coordinate such policies.

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2005/rp2005-32.pdf

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Globalization, Rights and Poverty

(Laksamana.Net) October 28, 2003 07:34 AM, John Rumbiak, Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (ELSHAM), Papua, Indonesia. Full text of a speech presented by Papuan human rights activist John Rumbiak to Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights on October 23.

http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Country/westpapua2.htm

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Globalization: Stiglitz's Case

This review of Joseph Stiglitz's book 'Globalization and its Discontents' by Benjamin Freidman provides a succinct and accessible summary of Stiglitz's book. It offers some critique too; however, the critique is marred by a basic and glaring error in discussions of global poverty levels. Accordingly, anyone reading the article is urged to read the letter response to it from Sanjay Reddy and others that is linked to at the bottom of the piece.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15630

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Globalization: The Global Policy Forum

For over five hundred years, monarchs, adventurers, generals, philanthropists and financiers have been constructing an ever-more-global economy. Today, unprecedented changes in communications, transportation, and computer technology have given new impetus to the globalizers. Around the world, globalizing capital is reorganizing business firms, sweeping away regulation and undermining local and national politics. Globalization creates vast new markets and gigantic new wealth, as well as widespread suffering, disorder and unrest. It creates global repression and propaganda as well as global movements for social justice and emancipation. The materials found on this site look at the main features of globalization, asking what is new, what drives the process, how does it change politics, and how does it affect global institutions like the UN.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/

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Governing Globalisation - An interview with George Monbiot

Interview conducted by Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy. George Monbiot, the leading environmental activist and writer, has been involved in many global campaigns of resistance to corporate and state power. But what positive social and political vision animates his work? And how does he see the future of the internationalist movement in the light of the 'war on terrorism'? This interview took place on 16 November, 2001, in Oxford, England. From Zmag.org. Cited 20 Dec 2001.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/define/1129monbiot.htm

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How Much Will Trade Liberalization Help the Poor? Comparing Global Trade Models

A report into the possibility of trade liberalization reducing poverty (Antoine Bouet, IFPRI, June 2006.)

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/ib/rb05.asp#sum

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Hypocrisy is all too evident behind our compassion: An Open Letter on Globalisation

From the Belgian Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt. This open letter is a call for action and reform-minded proposals to be discussed at the Second International Conference on Globalisation on Nov 26 in Leuven, Belgium. Young people in particular are encouraged to take part in the debate. (The Bangkok Post).

http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/2002/1018hypocrisy.htm

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ILO Annual Conference Adopts New Measures to Tackle the Challenges of Globalization

Thursday 20 June 2002 ( ILO/02/31 ) GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded its 90th annual Conference today after adopting a series of measures designed to promote a more rigorous approach to tackling the challenges of globalization and create an "anchor" for personal security through poverty reduction, job creation and improved workplace health and safety.

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2002/31.htm

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IMF and World Bank Watchers (IMF- WBWatchers)

This quarterly publication provides timely and in-depth analysis of the organizational structure, the policies and the lending operations of the IMF and the World Bank. News and Notices demystifies the role of the two institutions in the globalization process. In addition to critical analysis, News and Notices offers concrete proposals for changing the IMF and the World Bank and ensuring greater accountability, transparency, and citizen participation.

http://www.topica.com/lists/IMF-WBWatchers/

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Importance of Social Threefolding in the Age of the Empire Matrix

There are two great long-term tendencies for the development of human beings and the world. The first is the growing global interconnection of humans and their societies. This is the process of "globalization" broadly understood. Economics primarily drives this process but it affects all aspects of life. The second is the growing emancipation of the individual from racial, tribal, ethnic, linguistic, gender, national and other forms of group conditioning and constraints. This is the process of individualization or individuation, also broadly understood. The presence of both these trends simultaneously is unique in history. They characterize our time. They affect every detail of life. While these two trends have a tendency to conflict with each other, understood more deeply, they can be harmonious, a living polarity that is characteristic of all living beings. The two trends conflict only when individualism is practiced as egotism and not as individual social responsibility. We can see this in the struggle between "community" and "individualism", between "rights" and "duties", between the individualistic West and the group-oriented East, again broadly speaking. Understood more profoundly as a polarity, these two trends can be harmonized to create a better world. It can unleash the free, creative powers of the "individual" and place it in the service of the "community", of the world. The diversity inherent in the individuation process can be encouraged to come together in ways that vitalize social life, leading it away from chaos.

http://www.globenet3.org/Features/Feature_Empire_Matrix.shtml

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India Resource Center

India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India. We provide timely information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. We also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India. India Resource Center is a project of Global Resistance. Global Resistance works to strengthen the movement against corporate globalization by supporting and linking local, grassroots struggles against globalization around the world. Our goal is to ensure that those most impacted by globalization are engaged in and at the forefront of the movement against corporate globalization.

http://www.indiaresource.org/

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India's Socially Regulated Economy [pdf]

By far the larger part of the contemporary Indian economy - judged by measures as disparate as GDP and livelihoods - is not directly regulated by the state. It is regulated through social institutions. Social institutions express forms of power not confined to the economy. Macro-economic policy is implemented through their filters. In this paper some propositions derived from a large primary literature concerning the roles of gender, religious plurality, caste, space, class and the state are introduced. Liberalisation is argued to increase the tension between forces dissolving social forms of regulation and those intensifying them. (Barbara Harriss-White, QEH Working Paper Series, 2005)

http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps133.pdf

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Inequality Matters: Why globalization doesn't lift all boats

This essay by Nancy Birdsall in the Boston Review, looks at globalisation and inequality. Birdsall makes the case that inequality undermines economic and human development. She then analyses globalisation's impact on inequality and inequality's impact on globalisation.

http://bostonreview.net/BR32.2/birdsall.html

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International Forum on Globalisation

The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.

http://www.ifg.org/

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International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)

Promoting locally-based alternatives to global consumer culture: the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity

http://www.isec.org.uk

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Joseph Nathan Cruz's Valedictory Speech

This truly outstanding graduation speech by a very poor Filipino who graduated first among his peers at the Philippines' most prestigous university is notable for its stirring call to liberation from oppression and its powerful sense of justice. Surely one of the great graduation speeches written by a under graduate from any country.

http://www.zmag.org/cruz.htm

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Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington's grip

In this Guardian article, Professor Noam Chomsky looks at new partnerships between Southern countries which he sees as a new challenge to the US- dominated global order. (Noam Chomsky, Guardian, 15 March 2006)

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20060315.htm

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Making globalization work for all

Taipei Times, Wed, Nov 06, 2002: We must start thinking like doctors and prescribe tailored prescriptions to help cure the ills of developing countries By Jeffrey D. Sachs... Globalization is under strain as never before. Every-where its stresses rumble. Most of sub-Saharan Africa, South America, the Middle East and Central Asia are mired in stagnation or economic decline. North America, Western Europe and Japan are bogged down in slow growth and risk renewed recession. War now beckons in Iraq. For advocates of open markets and free trade this experience poses major challenges. Why is globalization so at risk? Why are its benefits seemingly concentrated in a few locations? Can a more balanced globalization be achieved? (abstract)

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2002/11/06/178533

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Managing Globalization: Q & A with Jeffrey Sachs

Readers of the International Herald Tribune were asked to submit questions to Columbia University Professer Jeffrey Sachs on vavious aspects of development and globalisation. These are his responses. (Jeffrey Sachs, International Herald Tribune, 8 November 2006)

http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/globalization/?p=216#comments

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March 8 in the World's Largest Democracy

India, the world's largest democracy, is often used as an example of a success story of globalisation, where the English language opens windows to the world of call centers and off-shore job contracts. This article however looks at the Adivasis, the 840 million indigenous people of India, whose dispossession from land and resources remains the other face of modernization, globalization and development, whose persecution reveals the poor quality of India's democracy on the ground level, and who create their own democracy in the form of mass mobilisation for last month's gathering on the theme of "Adivasi Women: Situation and Struggles" in Ranchi. ( Radha D'Souza, Znet, 17 April 2006)

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-04/15pilger.cfm

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MaryKnoll - Global Concerns

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, NewsNotes, Our positions on world issues. Reach out and become involved in our Global Village, Global Concerns Staff Directory. How to Contact Policymakers. Global Links Page

http://home.maryknoll.org/index.php?module=MKArticles&office=global

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Meeting the Challenges in an Era of Globalization by Strengthening Regional Development Cooperation (pdf)

UNESCAP. Globalization has been a complex and uneven process. Several countries in the Asia-Pacific region have reaped substantial benefits, but many others, particularly the least developed, have been left behind. The fundamental vision of the United Nations Millennium Declaration is that better management of globalization is central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Towards this aim, regional development cooperation in trade, transport, ICT and finance is an effective vehicle for enabling Asia-Pacific countries to benefit equitably from globalization. The theme study Meeting the Challenges in an Era of Globalization by Strengthening Regional Development Cooperation, prepared for the sixtieth session of the Commission, presents the salient features of the analysis of selected regional cooperation agreements in the above four areas to identify ways in which Asia-Pacific countries can achieve this objective. The analysis identifies three layers of Asia-Pacific cooperation, intergovernmental rules-based, activities-based and transnational corporation-driven, which are part of globalization and promote incremental integration through public-private partnership. The document lists a number of areas which require further regional cooperation. Examples are harmonizing the "spaghetti bowl" of bilateral and regional trade arrangements, making the Asian Highway and Trans-Asian Railway the main international trunk routes of the region, harnessing the region's world-class expertise in ICT to bridge the digital divide between countries and establishing a strong, safe and efficient financial architecture to support economic development. The document suggests several specific roles for ESCAP in promoting regional cooperation.

http://www.unescap.org/pdd/publications/regcoop/index.asp

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Movement for a Socialist Future website

The Movement for a Socialist Future campaigns to defeat capitalist globalisation through policies of social ownership and mass democratic control. Includes statements and articles with archive analysing today's economic and political events with focus on Britain: What is New Labour and why regime change is necessary. Important sections on philosophy and art.

http://socialistfuture.org.uk

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Neoliberal Globalization: Cancún and Beyond (pdf)

(APRN) An in-depth report on the World Trade Organisation by Aziz Choudry, 2003.

http://www.asej.org/downloads/WTO(81903)Green_Paper4.pdf#search=%22Neoliberal%20Globalization%3A%20Cancun%20and%20Beyond%22

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