globalization and the south

Globalization and Changes in the Labor Markets in South Asia

South Asian labor market has undergone changes brought in by the forces of liberalization. Liberal free trade has changed the structure of industrial priority from import competing to export industries. This has implied fragmentation and relocation of industries in the value added chains. Production has been stretched across the globe and unskilled labor and skilled labor are being thrown to fo...

Cultural Globalization in the Post - soviet “ south ” Douglas

Thanks to increasing globalization, both West and Islamic ideas are finding new adherents among young people in Central Asia, though an “Asian” identity is not developing, at least not yet. The changes are happening so quickly, it is hard to say whether one set of ideas will prevail or if the result will be a new amalgam. G defined as an increase in the volume and intensity of flows—of goods, f...

Environment: globalization of conservation: a view from the south.

The Politics of Consumption Taxes: Globalization and the Median Voter

The regressive nature of consumption taxes poses a challenge to partisan theory. Using data for up to 20 OECD countries in the period 1970-2003 this article aims to explore the question of whether the idea that social democratic governments typically have to compromise on policy goals and core constituency interests to make themselves more appealing to the median voter necessitates the use of r...

Industrial Convergence , Globalization , and the Persistence of the North - South Divide *

This article demonstrates empirically that widespread convergence in the degree of industrialization between former First and Third World countries over the past four decades has not been associated with convergence in the levels of income enjoyed on average by the residents of these two groups of countries. Our findings contradict the widely made claim that the significance of the North-South ...

Globalization and the Impact of Globalization on the Health Industry

Globalization is the key challenge for public health care and primary health protection, given the links between globalization and health care, which are very complex today, the emphasis increasingly being on developing countries, in which group is also Croatia. Although there are numerous papers available on this subject, it is necessary to provide an institutional framework for the assessment...