...What does globalization mean to me, my family, and my country? Globalization, the word that we can almost find on everyday’s newspaper, is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Every country is going globalization. A lot of companies want to join the globalization. People are overwhelmed with information from all over the world every day. What exactly can globalization bring to us? To me, globalization means a mixture of multi-culture and multi-background. When Internet began to rise in our country in late 1990s’, I learned news from all over the world just by clicking the mouse in front of my desk. I was so immersed in the diversity of different culture and different countries’ policy. At that time, I was only 10 years old. I always dreamt of having a friend from different country. Two years ago, the first time I came to America, I attended a language school whose students were from over 60 countries. That was really a mixture of culture and background. I learned to say “hello” and “I love you” with 8 languages. But at first, I had a lot of misunderstanding with other students because of the different way of greeting, the different way to express our feelings and the different life attitude. As time went on, we can all understand and accept these kinds of difference. It made life beautiful and interesting because of this diversity. Then I come to Brandeis International Business School, which is very similar to the language school I attended. I enjoy the life here very much...
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...What I Think of Globalization Have you ever imagine the time when the world was divided into parts and every part was closed? I believe the answer is no. Nowadays our life is more convenient as we can communicate with people outside our countries, go abroad easily and even buy things from most places around the world at home through Internet. If you think you are one of those people who have benefit from all these changes, then you should thank for the globalization. It brings us a lot of changes from different area and through this process people may learn and benefit from other countries. As more and more nations catch the step of globalization, this has become the main topic in the era and all kind of voices come upon it. Some people believe that globalization will not benefit the world because of different reasons. They think it hurts both the developed countries and the developing nations, especially on the economic field. I understand that everything has two sides and globalization may have it harmful points. However, I believe what globalization has bring to the whole community on economic area is mostly positive things as it helps the developing countries with their economy, makes people live under better situation and provide more working opportunities to developing nations. At the same time, it lowers the cost of developed countries and makes strong countries get more economic benefit from this process. Maybe some people insist their point that developed nations benefit...
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...integrate to gain better understandings, and live a better quality of life. This progress affects the world economically, politically, culturally, and socially. It affects each country differently, some better than others. This term once meant that more people are moving across the globe, spreading ideas and goods across borders. In today’s world, some of the matters it deals with are free trade, world banks, sweatshops, and outsourcing. Many people see the positive effects of globalization. Societies that become richer with knowledge may be accepting of all types of people, making our world more peaceful. However, I see globalization as damaging to developing and developed countries in today’s world. Workers in developing countries are prone to harsh conditions and exploitation. Developed countries suffer from greedy CEO’s and unemployment due to outsourcing. Globalization damages developing countries because many young people work in sweatshops, which damages their health and development. These young boys and girls have little opportunity to develop into better human beings. They are subject to work during their development stages, instead of education. Ha-Joon Chang, a former consultant to the World Bank wrote a book on the myth of free trade and describes a situation involving his son who is six years old. “If I drive Jin-Gyu into the labor market at the age...
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...Developing countries and developed countries differ greatly when it comes to the role that women play in the society, politics and economics. In fact, what seems to distinguish developing countries most from developed ones is the education level, responsibilities, quality of life, legal rights, economic status and occupation,(if any) of the women in that country. For example, in the developing country of India, women are very low on the totem pole of society, while in a more developed country such as Japan, women have a much more active role in society and are virtually equal to men. In the developing country of India, women are left to do the work of maintain the household by performing menial tasks of subsistence farming and raising children. They are often the most exploited and least privileged person in the house (Park). Being a woman in India is a dangerous thing for several reasons. Economically it is more taxing to have a girl than it is to have a boy because if you have a girl then you have to pay a dowry to the man’s family who she is to be married to. In India all ways of telling the sex of a baby have been banned from use because many families will perform an abortion on the baby if it turns out that it is a girl. Also, if the mother can’t produce a boy, she is in great jeopardy of being killed. This is called a Dowry Death, and a 1997 report claimed that there are at least five thousand “Dowry Deaths” a year. This type of thinking is embedded in...
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...Intro to Geography Fall 2010 Instructor: Cissy Bennett Office: IEC 323 Office Hours: MW 11-12, TTH 10-11 and by appt. Phone: 972-3705 Email: jbennett@astate.edu Textbook: Introduction to Geography, 11th edition by Getis, Getis and Fellman Course Outline I. Introduction a. Nature and Scope of Geography b. The Geographic Grid c. Maps d. Global Time/U.S. Time Zones II. Physical Geography: Weather and Climate a. Atmospheric Temperatures b. Atmospheric Pressures and Winds c. Storms d. Climate III. Physical Geography: Landforms a. Dynamic Nature of the Earth’s Crust b. Tectonic Forces c. Gradational Forces IV. Cultural Geography a. Population Geography b. Cultural Geography c. Political Geography d. Spatial Interaction and Diffusion e. Urban Geography Course Objective: To introduce the student to the physical, political, economic and cultural dimensions of the world community from a geographical perspective. General Guidelines: A. Attendance. Exams will be based on material covered in class, so attendance is extremely important. Attendance will be taken weekly. B. Grades. There will be four exams worth 100 points each. Exams will be multiple choice and true and false. Each exam will constitute 20% of your grade. This is a web-assisted class. You will have ten blackboard assignments worth...
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...CURRICULUM OF GEOGRAPHY For 4 years BS & 2 years MS (Revised 2009) | | HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION ISLAMABAD CURRICULUM DIVISION, HEC Dr. Syed Sohail H. Naqvi Executive Director Prof. Dr. Altaf Ali G. Shahikh Member (Acad) Miss Ghayyur Fatima Director (Curri) Mr. M. Tahir Ali Shah Deputy Director (Curri) Mr. Shafiullah Deputy Director Composed by Mr. Zulfiqar Ali, HEC Islamabad CONTENTS 1. Introduction………………………………… 6 2. Aims and Objectives……………………… 10 3. Standardized Format for 4-years BS degree programme ………………………. 12 4. Scheme of Studies for BS …………………. 14 5. Details of Courses for BS …………………. 16 6. Elective Group Papers ……………………. 45 7. Scheme of Studies for MS Programme …. 48 8. Details of Courses for MS …………………. 50 9. Optional Courses Model……………………. 56 10. Recommendations …………………………. 61 11. Annexures A,B,C,D & E …………………… 63 PREFACE Curriculum of a subject is said to be the throbbing pulse of a nation. By looking at the curriculum one can judge the state of intellectual development and the state of progress of the nation. The world has turned into a global village; new ideas and information are pouring in like a stream. It is, therefore, imperative to update our curricula regularly by introducing the recent developments in the relevant fields of knowledge. In exercise...
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...Globalization has witnessed the world change from being compromised of several segregated communities to one whereby people from all over the world becomes very much connected. Increased trade between various regions has enhanced the economy whereas social and cultural exchange has also improved through advancements in technology and communication methods. Globalization has been observed as one of the driving forces for development throughout the world. Although it is undeniable that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks of this phenomenon, the rewards enjoyed by the developed world are largely at the expense of developing nations. The economic benefits of globalization have empowered developing countries to solve many ongoing concerns like unemployment and fall in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. This has been made possible by the fact that globalization is drawing more multinational companies (MNCs) from developed countries who wants to tap into the potential offered by the less developed nations. Economists Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner asserted that this economic integration has been prominent especially in the past 10 years (Ghemawat, 2007) However, this does not necessarily lead to equal distribution of wealth among populations around the world. That is to say that the benefits of globalization are not inclusive and have created a drift between the developed and developing countries. According to The Globalization Index (2007), at the Group of Eight Summit in 2005...
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...To what extent has globalization improved the lives of children and youth? To say that globalization has affected the lives of children and youth around the world would be an understatement. But with the growth over the years from globalization, many pros and cons have come out of it. The forthcoming of globalization has done wonders to developed countries, but not so much for underdeveloped countries. This is why I stand on a thin line between if it has improved the lives plenty, or not quite enough. Globalization has increased economic competition. With this producers try to provide goods and services of value at the lowest possible prices. To achieve such a goal, manufacturer’s hire youth and children. They force the youth and children to work in horrible conditions that are unsafe and threatening to their health. They take advantage of the children due to the fact that they talk themselves up, and the children and afraid to speak up for their rights. Most of these kids that are being used as cheap labor, will never have a chance to go to school to further their education and to be able to get higher paying and safer jobs. In accordance with the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, it recognizes that “the child [a person under 18 years of age], for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, …and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance...
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...Brain Drain: Why People Leave their Motherland? (Implications for the Developed and Developing Economies) ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country?’ – John F. Kennedy, Former US President. The need to migrate to another place from where you are is a old habit of the human race. The migration of people from one country to another has both good and bad effects. Good effects on the country that they are migrating to and a bad effect of on the country that they are leaving when it comes to highly educated people and skilled man power. In economic terms, it is known as brain drain. It is now widely known that migration of highly skilled or educated people of one country to another to settle down and work is to improve their economic condition. At about the same time that the United states of America launched its space programme and reduced its immigration laws from other countries to the US, the newly liberated countries of Asia (which includes Sri Lanka) , Africa and Latin America started to develop their economy which required skilled professionals in engineering, educationists, technicians and others. But the migration of these type of professionals to developed countries bottlenecks the development of the poor countries. We can see that the majority of the young or educated people from around the globe are preferring to settle down in the developed countries like USA, UK, Canada, Australia or other European and East Asian...
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...Home country Loss of Employment: Companies which invest abroad in production and marketing facilities hire labor of the foreign country, in this case, it leads to a loss of employment in the home country. Many -a-times it is seen that MNC even close plants in their home countries and move these production facilities to third world countries in order to benefit from cheaper labor and material sourcing costs. Problem of Repatriation: Many countries especially those countries which have scarce foreign exchange reserves tend to restrict the outflows of profits, dividends and royalties of the MNCs in order to save their foreign exchange for other more important purposes. In such cases, the profits or gains made in the foreign country remain there and cannot be deployed elsewhere in the event that there are more profitable opportunities available. Possibility of Loosing Competitive Advantage: This problem is especially true for technologically advanced developed countries. Development of new technology is a costly affair along with it requiring a significant investment of time and effort. Many-a-times, these technologically advanced developed countries have to license these technologies to the developing countries as a part of their FDI strategy, this gives these countries access to vital information on these technologies which can be imitated by the host country. Although one may argue that there exist Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) governing transfer and protecting of technologies...
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...The Lexus and the Olive Tree Understanding Globalization Financially, Citizens, and countries are no longer islands into themselves. With the advent of globalization, the computer, and in particular the internet, people can easily invest not only in foreign corporations but also in the bonds and other papers of the foreign countries themselves. As a result, what happens in the economies of foreign countries can rapidly affect the investors of countries halfway across the world. This has been the case for only ten years, and the reason why Friedman says its whole new ball game and that --- “the world is only ten years old”. The cold war no longer is a dominating system for understanding foreign affairs. We are now in a new international system Friedman calls “globalization”. The Cold war was characterized by division; now it’s characterized by integration, integration made possible by rapid-speed airplanes, cheap international telephone charges, satellite communication and more than ever, the computer and the internet. We now have an entirely new set of financial understandings to achieve. What used to be true is no longer necessarily true. As a result of information Arbitrage, we can no longer think like specialists, because what’s going on in this new world requires us to think rapidly and multi-dimensionally. We can no longer, for example, think only like financiers; we must understand policies, because what happens politically in one country can affect finances in...
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.........he country that once welcomed the tired, poor, huddled masses is now asking for a little reciprocation. And Canada, Germany and Australia are heeding the call. They top a list of the countries most welcoming to expats. There, relocators have a relatively easy time befriending locals, joining a local community group and learning the local language. In Depth: World's Friendliest Countries......he country that once welcomed the tired, poor, huddled masses is now asking for a little reciprocation. And Canada, Germany and Australia are heeding the call. They top a list of the countries most welcoming to expats. There, relocators have a relatively easy time befriending locals, joining a local community group and learning the local language. In Depth: World's Friendliest Countries......he country that once welcomed the tired, poor, huddled masses is now asking for a little reciprocation. And Canada, Germany and Australia are heeding the call. They top a list of the countries most welcoming to expats. There, relocators have a relatively easy time befriending locals, joining a local community group and learning the local language. In Depth: World's Friendliest Countries......he country that once welcomed the tired, poor, huddled masses is now asking for a little reciprocation. And Canada, Germany and Australia are heeding the call. They top a list of the countries most welcoming to expats. There, relocators have a relatively easy time befriending locals,...
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...ESSAY Theme: “International labor division” The international division of labor was an achievement of the spirit of Liberalism. International trade has to some extent existed from the oldest times. There was a regular commerce in some commodities the production of which was limited to special geographical conditions. There was occasional trade when some extraordinary event offered unusual opportunities. But however important the civilizations consequences of this international traffic were and however important its amount was when compared with the technical difficulties that transport had to overcome, the role played by it in supplying the wants of the markets was negligible. A very small part only of the common man's daily consumption was dependent on foreign produce. The commodities imported might for the most part be regarded as luxury goods, as people could do without them without suffering too great privation. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Napoleon's continental blockade even if it had been strictly enforced would not have had any noteworthy consequences on the daily consumption of the masses in Central Europe. In those days for the ordinary man's supply of even sugar (of course, in those days cane sugar only) and cotton were luxuries. Globalization has led to the new international division of labor (NIDL) where production processes are no longer located in the national economies. In the recent past production processes are being shifted...
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...Since 1980s, the environmental matter as trade barriers between the North and the South countries has feature prominently in the world international forums Developing countries that struggles to improve their economies and attract more investors to enhance their economies is term as pollution haven. The word pollution haven as proposed by Zarsky (1997, 1999) is a claimed that the South have reduced and relaxed their environmental regulation to attract foreign investors. The southern countries which are endowed with lots of natural resources has long been staying under poverty and the only way to be out of this situation is opening up their economies and speed up industrialization development through the foreign investors. On the other hand, the North countries business feared that if the developing countries lower cost of operation through labour intensive and resources then they stand a chance to lose value or capture the market. The developed countries argued that they have more severe and effective regulations on environmental (Duchin et al., 1995, Xu, 2000) compare to the developing countres, but the World Trade Organization has protected the exported products from developing countries. The North claims that this is unfair business and they requested global environmental standard to form level playing field (Chudnovsky and Lopez 1999; Xu 2000). This claim however was seen as another form of trade barriers by the developing countres. The environmental problems such as...
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...Managing electronic waste is a pollution problem rapidly increasing all over the world. The increase can be attributed to the technological innovations of electrical gadgets that replaces the analogue machines. The number of electrical appliances disposed in developed countries is much higher than those in developing countries. In developing countries, the main source of the electronic wastes is the electrical appliances from the developed countries. Several researchers have shown that polyhalogenated and other toxic metals from the electronic waste can pose serious threat to the lives of people as well as their environment. The disposal of electronic waste affects the health of humans in two ways. First, one can get contaminated through the food chain. Secondly, direct exposure to workers carrying out the duties at the disposal site. Since the discovery of toxic substance in electronic waste, there has been inadequate laws all over the world governing effective management of electronic waste. This has exposed the environment to risks. Large quantities of electronic waste are majorly recycled in developing nations. The number of landfills has been on the rise in both developing and developed countries. Presently there is extensive research on electronic waste management in order to minimize the problems, both at the international as well as the national levels. Research involves sorting components that could be precious metals and those that can be recycled. Several tools...
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