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globalisation ; a cause or cure?
March 13, 2004 - 05:20 AM
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To what extent can globalisation help combat the issue of poverty,especially in third world countries where poeple are not even connected to the world.
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
March 13, 2004 - 05:58 AM
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By providing cheap labour for the international companies.
Such as Nike, etc...
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
March 14, 2004 - 06:37 AM
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globalization is a tool by the big guns(states)to continue their dormination of the world.with the world becoming a global village and the benefits that have to follow,the developed world are instead tightening trade and other limitations to under priviledge countries.l think less develop countries wil benefit litle from it unless global injustice is reduce and the first world stop thinking only about gloabl finance,trade restriction etc which favours their own economies.
the globalization mechanizers like World Trade Organisation are just there to make things worse for African States.unless its policies and method of represntation is adjusted then globalisation will remain in the developed world.
just to say it will not develop our poor economies in africa.it is not a trigger to world economic development
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
March 15, 2004 - 01:11 AM
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Globalisation is a western ideology that is being used to justify more exploitation of poor countries' resources for the benefit of the north. Ask yourself why has'nt there been any effective global justice system for known cases exploitative tendencies by Multi National Companies....
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
March 15, 2004 - 01:48 AM
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What do you do, if you get all the way to the top, and you are young, and you will live for long?
- MAKE SURE NOBODY TOPPLES YOU !!
That principle can be translated into Globalisation and why multinational companies made sure nobody puts them down, ever!.
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Huh?
April 9, 2004 - 11:16 AM
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Are we talking about globalization or capitalism?
Because one has very little to do with the other.
Globalization is communication and acknoledgement; but the only problem that the only thing that people are communicating to eachother is the cost of a BigMac or Apple Computer. But a BigMac and Apple computer are not globalization, but rather subjects of globalization.
Lets look at the substance of globalization.
Now, what 'is' globalization? and how 'does' it affect you?
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May 27, 2004 - 05:37 AM
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Originally posted by Carlosinho
[B]Are we talking about globalization or capitalism?B]
Carlosinho, I disagree. Globalization is merely the evolution of capitalism. All humans want a better quality of life. This desire to aquire material goods manifests itself through businesses. Business people aim to ehance their quality of life via profit maximisation. To do this they can either a) sell more goods, or b) lower their costs. Global expansion offers both new markets for selling their products, (eg. motorola, vodafone entering the indian telecommunications market) and also huge pools of cheap labour, (eg GAP, Nike etc.. manufacturing their products in Cambodia). The process of globalisation is just a natural progression in the evolution of businesses.
However, the inequality that stems from globalisation is not new. Inequality has been around for centuries. In fact I would argue that perhaps inequality is the basis of capitalism. What one must remember is that everything in the world is become increasingly interdependent. If one person is making money, someone else is losing out.
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for me its a cause!
July 15, 2004 - 07:57 AM
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its interesting how the people from the north view the globalization, contrary to the southerners.I admit that globalization theory was well intended to have the world as a global village. but the irony comes when one has more than they need ,while others (majority)people struggle to survive on a dollar (a day)! while in Europe a cow lives on 2 dollars a day.
the greedy TNC who think of making money from any opportunity (maximizers) with less consideration to the others. take for instance the BP/SHELL. its a huge Multi National company spread all over the world.
sadly enough, they are currently embarking on the strategy of "growing to win"; look..! at the gross injustices (article below) they do in many corners of the world!
the time is now for the young people to unite for a worthy course :ACTION- how? making your governments accountable for its actions. who makes the rules? whenever the companies flow in Africa/Asia for instance?- the governments. all the checks and balances for there action must be checked and who have the right active minds for this task? us
For me the biggest challenge is how to have the young people in Africa helped to help themselves but not to be dependant on the neo-liberal theory.
visit the www.jubileeUS.org and www.TAMEtheMONSTER.org and make your voice heard on all this issues debt cancellation etc. for me all this issues are inter related in one way or another and addressing one only is futile and aimed at different goals.
globalization needs a programatic approach to address.
read the article and see the realities.
THE EVILS COMMITTED ON OUR DOOR STEPS
Now that the agreement with the Canadian company, Tiomin, has been signed and work will begin on mining titanium in Kwale,(kenya) environmental groups will need to keep a close eye on what is happening to prevent the disasters leashed on the world by multinationals such as Shell and BP.
In recent years, it has been up to watchdogs like the Green Belt Movement locally or Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace internationally to blow the whistle on issues of environmental degradation, usually after considerable damage has been done.
Governments prefer to have the massive revenues that accrue regardless of the damage and to protect the interests of the companies that generate them. They, like members of the public, have been hoodwinked by promises of projects like the odd academic scholarship or playground under the title of Corporate Social Responsibility intended to distract attention from the mess created especially in relation to oil.
To my knowledge, only one country Ð Norway Ð has been able to use the wealth it gained from oil for the benefit of its citizens as a whole.
Last month’s lacklustre European elections may be a reflection of this growing divide between the governors and the governed: Friends of the Earth UK 7 campaigner Tricia Phelan said of New Labour’s dismal performance: "The government is out of step with the voting public. People want companies to contribute to the community and environment they operate in."
She pointed out that official excuses about the impossibility of creating binding international Corporate Social Responsibility rules due to economic, legal and cultural differences are nonsense, since these already operate quite effectively in the financial world.
Shell has of late suffered particularly bad publicity. In January, oil and gas reserves were found to have been overstated, and after a public campaign to highlight the company’s secretive practices and incompetence, the chairman, Sir Philip Watts, was given the sack. His payoff was in the region of $2.5 million, and so far he has not been required to hand back his title or the money.
Shareholders have vented anger at their AGMs in both Amsterdam and London. (At present Royal Dutch Shell owns 60 per cent of the operating company while Shell Transport and Trading (UK) holds the rest.)
A new report released by Friends of the Earth proves that the company has failed to keep its promises. "Failing the Challenge - the Other Shell Report" contains first-hand evidence from communities suffering directly from the effect of the company’s policies.
The plight of the Ogoni people was highlighted by the execution in 1995 of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, but the situation has hardly improved since then.
The report found "substantial layers of crude oil in mangrove forests and pipes corroded and spilling, with 9,900 barrels of oil spilt in 2003 alone. Polluted community water pumps had not been cleaned up for over a year and local people complained that their grievances were dealt with by security forces rather than the company itself".
Nigeria accounts for 10 per cent of Shell production worldwide and there is promise of more. The company has gone into confessional mode to try and improve its image by producing its own report in the same week:
"Sometimes we feed conflict by the way we award contracts, gain access to land and deal with community representatives" but yet again falls back on blaming Nigeria as "a difficult place in which to operate because of sabotage" instead of taking at least some of the responsibility for causing serious social unrest which has led to the sabotage.
In Durban, South Africa, Shell’s dilapidated SAPREF refinery has experienced five major spills or accidents since last year’s AGM. In the Manila suburb of Pandacan in the Philippines, for instance, 330 million litres of crude oil, diesel and aviation fuel are stored opposite a high school right in the centre of the community. The Manila City Council has not closed the depots despite leaks and fires which have caused hundreds of residents to be hospitalised.
The damage is not restricted to Third World countries, though undoubtedly powerful businesses can more easily get away with murder there. Port Arthur Texas, where George W. Bush was for a time governor and where Shell has a large refinery, is known locally as "gasoline alley." In 2002 alone, there were 56 major accidents, fires or explosions. Hilton Kelly, a community leader, attended the Shell AGM as a representative of the refinery Reform Campaign.
"Shell’s top management in London needs to come to Port Arthur and help correct the problems that create a health burden on their neighbours. Because of the pervasive pattern of racism here in the South, we cannot get the local managers of Shell to take the action needed," he said.
Since the firing of Sir Philip Watts, respected geologist and scientific advisor Lord Ron Oxburgh has been appointed chairman. He, too, has been surprisingly honest: he told the Guardian (June 17) that the threat of climate change made him "really very worried for the planet."
Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide which scientists think contribute to global warning, need to be captured urgently and stored underground in a process called sequestration, but he acknowledged that time was not on our side.
His words echo those of the chief UK government science advisor David King who said in January that climate change posed a bigger threat to the world than terrorism.
Shell has been in the forefront of such research and only eight years ago was congratulated by the green movement for its commitment towards sustainable development, but the volume of negative evidence showing a ruthless disregard for local communities has dented its reputation. Nevertheless, compared to ExxonMobil, the biggest and most influential oil producer in the US, it is positively progressive.
In June 2002, chairman Lee Raymond said: "We in ExxonMobil do not believe that the science required establish the linkage between fossil fuels and warming has been demonstrated." Could this be another form of "sequestration" or burying your head in the sand?
In the meantime, British companies like Shell can contaminate sites far from home with impunity, as legal constraints are inadequate. Consumers need to add their protests by voting with their feet.
AFTER THIS NOW DECIDE WETHER WE HAVE STILL TIME LEFT FOR QUESTIONS AND NOT ACTION.
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
September 13, 2004 - 05:57 AM
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well in as much as Globalisation has done some harm especially to the third world countries i still think that Globalisation is it right now,i mean what are we talking about here?First i must let some of us know that we are far from capitalism here what we are faced with is an isue of connection,globalisation is not about a meeting of presidents or world leaders but it is about a global interaction of the common people of different countries and their views about life and how to improve it,we are only facing some unavoidable problems of globalisation because some people try to infiltrate the ideals of it,and as we all know it's usual there are always two sides to a thing good/bad while some will protagonise a thing others will be on the antagonising side,so we must still admit that even the third world countries have benefitted from globalisation and there is still more to benefit from globalisation if only we make good use of it.
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FACE IT JOY
September 13, 2004 - 06:02 AM
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Joy we can't help but to believe in globalisation u know that,but the issue of solving poverty with globalisation is not the case now what i think the third world countries should do now is to try and improve on the state of productivity and check other vices in the society like corruption before trying to brand itself globally.
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
December 19, 2004 - 11:06 AM
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In my opinion globalization cannot help the issue of poverty because it is mainly the globalization of the world that is the cause of poverty. Like for instance the world has never had a wider gap between the rich and the poor of the world than it does today. This is because the powerful nations are using the cheap labour of underdeveloped countries who have no other choice but to have cheap labour, and so while the poor countries get poorer from cheap labour the rich countries are the only ones who benefit because they pay practically nothing, when in fact they have the money to pay decent wages but decide to keep this money for themselves.
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Globalization
February 15, 2005 - 09:59 AM
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Mainstream economic thought promises that globalization would lift the poor above poverty, dissolve dictatorships, protect the environment, integrate cultures, and most importantly, reverse the growing economic gap between rich and poor countries of the world. But the evidence of globalization has spurred a political backlash such as the street protests that has plagued the WTO ministerial meetings since 1999. This backlash has succeeded in uniting several categories of protesters from all walks of life to form a common front against the inequalities caused by globalization. For example, cultural custodians have charged that national cultures and identities are under constant threat due to spread of internets, satellite TV, international media networks, and increased personal travel. MNCs in some nations are becoming more powerful and influential than democratically elected governments. Ecologists are overly concerned about corporations’ disregard for environmental degradati on. Human rights activists are lamenting the loss of freedom to corporate power. To top it all, small business owners are crying wolf about losing their market shares to mega-corporations due to economies of scale.
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Global benefits for whom? The haves or the have nots?
April 5, 2005 - 12:09 PM
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Globalisation (via reduced trade barriers, cross border manufacturing and sales) is just helping the developed countries sell their products to the rest of the world...
Most developed countries are way ahead on technology and products... you can never expect a Sudan or Nigeria producing a car superior to what is produced by the Japanese or the Americans.
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Re: globalisation ; a cause or cure?
April 8, 2005 - 03:57 AM
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Yeah Crimson Archer...
The developing country can't get to produce a superior car to the western cars, but i think u should know that it's not the fault of globalisation,cars were being produced even b4 globalisation was born, it all lies on the economic and technological strength of the country.
And hey talking about developed countries flooding developing countries like Nigeria with their superior cars as a sign of adverse effects of globalisation, are u aware that in Nigeria presently one can't get a good drug to buy easily,cos of excess flood of sub-standard(not fake though) drugs from India and Pakistan?
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GLOBALISATION means CAPITALISM, but...
May 23, 2005 - 05:33 AM
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i absolutely agree with those who said that globalisation is a cause.it's just a tool to make the domination of capitalyst(states) bigger,bigger,and bigger till we're all 'dead' by changing--or i can say bending--our mind into capitalism-mind.what a NIGHTMARE.can you even imagine how's it gonna be? how's OUR WORLD gonna be? i'll never want to. though we're livin' in a capitalyst world, we don't have to be capitalyst.well..,i realize and admit that indirectly we're becoming a part of this by using,wearing,consuming that 'things'.
but the capitalyst is the one who use its power to 'kill' the poors.so, what i'm trying to say is,"In this capitalyst world we cannot reject capitalism but we still make it a lot better by helping the others especially those who are poor and unlucky.and you know what? we make the world a better place to live by doing it.
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