Opportunities and Threats Brought by Globalization

Opportunities and Threats Brought by Globalization

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  • Date Submitted: 01/26/2009 3:11 AM
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SARASWATI EDUCATION SOCIETY’S
SARASWATI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,
KHARGHAR

A
PROJECT ON
OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS OF GLOBALISATION

GROUP MEMBERS:
1) Atul Patil (30)
2) Harshada Sagvekar (38)
3) Khushboo Sakhala (40)
GLOBALIZATION:
Globalization (or globalisation) in its literal sense is the process or transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces. Globalization is often used to refer to economic globalization, that is, integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.
Tom G. Palmer of Cato Institute defines "globalization" as "the diminution or elimination of state-enforced restrictions on exchanges across borders and the increasingly integrated and complex global system of production and exchange that has emerged as a result."
Herman E. Daly argues that sometimes the terms internationalization and globalization are used interchangeably but there is a slight formal difference. The term "internationalization" refers to the importance of international trade, relations, treaties etc. International means between or among nations. "Globalization" means erasure of national boundaries for economic purposes; international trade (governed by comparative advantage) becomes inter-regional trade (governed by absolute advantage).

WHAT IS GLOBALISATION?
In the past two to three decades, more and more MNCs have been looking for locations around the world, which would be cheap for their production. Foreign investment by MNCs in these countries has been rising. At the same time, foreign trade between countries has been rising rapidly. A large part of the foreign trade is also controlled by MNCs. For...

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