in recent years, the issue of globalization has become the focus of researchers and policymakers. there are some indicators to measure and evaluate globalization in different countries. the kof index is the most famous index which measure three aspects of globalization: economic, political, and social. in this paper, the impact of globalization on the building human resource (bhr) among the 56 ...

■ Abstract The sociological, economic, political, and anthropological literatures are devoting increasing attention to globalization. This chapter discusses the various connotations of the term and puts it in historical perspective. Existing theoretical and empirical research on globalization is organized around five key issues or questions: Is it really happening? Does it produce convergence? ...

Introduction What is globalization? Theorists, the media, and people have discussed this phenomenon for decades. What does the future hold for a global world? People advocating a global world and those who are against it debate the pros and cons of the globalization process. Globalization is ubiquitous and when globalization is discussed, everyone has different images. Here, it is defined as th...

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD countries’ social and overall spending as well as their implicit tax rates on labor, consumption and capital. Accounting for potential endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not decrease the leeway for indep...

This article discusses, from an historical-neo-institutionalist and relational-strategic perspective, the postmodern thesis of the end of the state due to the increasing processes of world globalization. The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and h...

globalization is a multi-dimensional process of economic, political, cultural, and ideological change. it has had a mixed impact on women’s rights. on the one hand, it has led to increasing violations of women’s economic, political, and cultural rights in large measure due to the withering away of the welfare-developmental state, the feminization of poverty, the expansion of religious fundament...