The last two decades have witnessed the emergence and consolidation of an economic paradigm which emphasizes domestic deregulation and the removal of barriers to international trade and finance. If properly managed, such an approach can lead to perceptible gains in health status. Where markets are non-exclusionary, regulatory institutions strong and safety nets in place, globalization enhances ...

The world is entering a new path of development which is becoming the driving force of globalization. It is seen as an irreversible process of the present reality and has a significant impact on the transformation of economic, social and cultural rights. This also applies to changes in the rural environment which while emphasizing the global development should also maintain its identity and loc...

US services are globalizing at a rapid rate, are increasingly in trade surplus, and, through foreign investment and affiliate sales abroad, are deepening the global integration of the US economy. There is even a new term for the phenomenon—“offshoring”—that is, the offshore outsourcing of service activities. While outsourcing is not new—the breakdown of the process of goods production to local ...

The 1870-1913 period marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization. How did this tremendous increase in trade affect economic development? This work isolates a causality channel by exploiting the fact that the steamship produced an asymmetric change in trade distances among countries. Before the invention of the steamship, trade routes depended on wind patterns. The introduction of t...

Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH): broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy lives. In the first article in this three part series, we described the origins of the series in work conducted for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization's Com...

The current economic crisis has long-term causes that are rooted in the economic dynamics of globalization. I construct a Solow-style endogenous model of capital accumulation, technological change, trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), based on myopic agents. Combining advanced technologies with low labor costs, FDI yields extraordinary profits that generate asymmetric innovation incentive...

this paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Both movements emerged in the late 1980s as responses to continuing (neo) colonial conditions in their countries. I explore to what extent the various processes commonly referred to as “globalization,” both the world-wide econ...

China has undergone economic transition characterized by marketization, globalization and decentralization, which has resulted in profound change in land use and urban space. This paper integrates globalization, institutional change, and China's economic transition to better understand urban land expansion in China. We use land use survey data in Jiangsu province at the county level to shed the...

Discerning what globalization means for state and local economic development strategies, structures, and policies remains a formidable governance challenge today. Gaining considerable attention in the popular media have been two very different diagnoses and sets of recommendations for coping with globalization, one offered by journalist Thomas Friedman (The World is Flat) and the other by econo...

economic globalization has been formed through last five centries, during which more developed counties in attempt 5 gain profits, influence and more economic lejemony dominated some states and developed their trade, economic and productive activifies. in recent years due 5 technological progress and specially liberalization polies through the world, there has been more progress everywhere. glo...