Globalization? What globalization?
there can be no going back
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GLOBALIZATION
there can be no going back
The other day in Paris, I attended an international symposium on globalization that brought together politicians and economists, diplomats, academics , trade unionists and representatives of humanitarian agencies; there were speakers from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, including Umberto Eco, former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, and Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs. Each had his or her own specific views, but there was one thing on which every speaker agreed ; the fact that globalization is here to stay. As French trade union leader Nicole Notat put it, "The market economy is certainly the best system that exists." Historic roots In many ways, there is nothing new about globalization; it is a process that began to spread some three hundred years ago, when European nations, and Britain in particular, developed an economic system that depended on international trade . Spices , sugar, tea and coffee were among the first commodities that were traded globally. By 1850, Britain - the most developed nation at the time - had an economy that was dependent for its survival on global trade. Unable to feed its growing population, the country was importing 25% of its basic food, most of it from America and the British empire; and even if Britain was at the time far ahead of other nations in the "globalization" of its economy, other countries such as France and the United States were already moving strongly in the same direction. Without the globalization of trade, no nation would have been able to achieve its current state of development; for no nation in the world, not even the USA, can Download 393.22 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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