Study Skills Workshop
Final project
Academic Year 2013/2014‐ Term I
Lecturer: Michele Colombo
Student: Kolmakov Evgueni
Date: 13/12/2013

Index

Introduction 3

Main Body 3-6 What is globalization 3-4 The rise of globalization and the effects on the "global village" 5

Effects on Africa and developing countries 6

Conclusion 7-8

Bibliography 9

Introduction

This paper aims to firstly discuss what is the globalization and then to look at the effect that it has on the “global village” and mostly on poor countries such as countries inside the Africa’s continent. These topics are raised as we discuss globalization as an economic culture and a source of conflict due to the imperative change in methods of production and consumption. What is globalization?

There are a lot and different proposed definition of globalization as "the set of processes of global and regional integration" currently underway at the global level . One of the most successful definitions of “globalization” is the one given by the English sociologist Anthony Giddens . according to which the term refers to "the intensification of worldwide social relations which are able to link really distant localities, making sure that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa". Giddens believes that globalization has the characteristics typical of modernity , including the idea of the nation state, the capitalist economy, the division of labor and militarism. Globalization is thus essentially an expansion of the western Europe modernity and way of living expanded to the whole world on a global scale. It follows, then, that for Giddens, globalization and modernization coincide.

The term was first used by economists , referring mostly to the economic aspects of the relationship between people