EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION

 Globalization describes an ongoing process by which regional economies,

societies and cultures have become integrated through globe-spanning
networks of exchange. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to
economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the
international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows,
migration, and the spread of technology. However, globalization is usually
recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological,
socio cultural, political and biological factors. The term can also refer to the
transnational dissemination of ideas, languages, or popular culture.

Measuring Globalization:

 Goods and services, e.g., exports plus imports as a proportion of national

income or per capita of population

 Labor/people, e.g., net migration rates; inward or outward migration flows,

weighted by population

 Capital, e.g., inward or outward direct investment as a proportion of national

income or per head of population

 Technology, e.g., international research & development flows; proportion of

populations (and rates of change thereof) using particular inventions
(especially 'factor-neutral' technological advances such as the telephone,
motorcar, broadband)

Most globalized countries:

 Belgium

 Austria

 Sweden

 United Kingdom

 Netherlands

 Singapore

 Ireland

 Switzerland
  Netherlands

 Canada

 Denmark

Least Globalized countries:

 Haiti

 Myanmar

 the Central African Republic

 Burundi

 Indonesia

 India

 Iran

Negative effects of globalization:

 Developed nations have outsourced manufacturing and white collar jobs.

That means less jobs for their people. This has happened because
manufacturing work is outsourced to developing nations like China where the
cost of manufacturing goods and wages are lower. Programmers, editors,
scientists and accountants have lost their jobs due to outsourcing to cheaper
locations like India.

 Globalization has led to exploitation of labor. Prisoners and child workers are
used to work in inhumane conditions. Safety standards are ignored to
produce cheap goods.

 Job insecurity. Earlier people had stable, permanent jobs. Now people live in
constant dread of losing their jobs to competition. Increased job competition
has led to reduction in wages and consequently lower standards of living.

 Terrorists have access to sophisticated weapons enhancing their ability to

inflict damage. Terrorists use the Internet for communicating among
themselves.

 Companies have set up industries causing pollution in countries with poor

regulation of pollution.
  Fast food chains like McDonalds and KFC are spreading in the developing
world. People are consuming more junk food from these joints which has an
adverse impact on their health.

 The benefits of globalization is not universal. The rich are getting richer and
the poor are becoming poorer.

 Bad aspects of foreign cultures are affecting the local cultures through TV
and the Internet.

 Enemy nations can spread propaganda through the Internet.

 Deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS are being spread by travellers to the remotest
corners of the globe.

 Local industries are being taken over by foreign multinationals.

 The increase in prices has reduced the government’s ability to sustain social
welfare schemes in developed countries.

 There is increase in human trafficking.

 Multinational Companies and corporations which were previously restricted to

commercial activities are increasingly influencing political decisions.

Positive effects of globalization:

 Globalization has created the concept of outsourcing. Work such as software

development, customer support, marketing, accounting and insurance is
outsourced to developing countries like India. So the company that
outsourced the work enjoys the benefit of lower costs because the wages in
developing countries is far lower than that of developed countries. The
workers in the developing countries get employment. Developing countries
get access to the latest technology.

 Increased competition forces companies to lower prices. This benefits the end
consumers.

Increased media coverage draws the attention of the world to human right
violations. This leads to improvement in human rights