The Internet has accelerated the capability of firms to coordinate processes and personnel across organizational and geographic boundaries, which has in turn facilitated a dramatic increase in globalization. This globalization includes the development of new multinationals from emerging economies that are challenging developed-economy firms. This paper investigates how firms use the Internet to...

INTRODUCTION At first sight the link between globalization and food intake appears to be rather remote. However, its influence can be substantially high, although it works mostly through employment, incomes, prices and the market influence on food preferences. Globalization means bringing the domestic economy closer to the international economy in many ways. It is a consequence of liberalizatio...

This paper estimates a structural New Keynesian model to test whether globalization has changed the behavior of U.S. macroeconomic variables. Several key coefficients in the model such as the slopes of the Phillips and IS curves, the sensitivities of domestic inflation and output to “global” output, and so forth are allowed in the estimation to depend on the extent of globalization (modeled as ...

T here has been a basic tension between the stated objectives of Middle Eastern leaders to integrate their countries into the world economy, on the one hand, and the actual, tangible levels of this integration, on the other. Consequently, the non-democratic states of the Middle East have consistently lagged behind in such globalization indices as foreign direct investment (FDI), competitiveness...

Globalization has always affected Africa. The slave trades in East and West Africa profoundly shaped the development of many African societies over hundreds of years. As late as 1923, a company (the British South Africa Company) was still the sovereign authority in one territory (Southern Rhodesia). Today, most African countries are extremely open to the international economy as exports plus im...

The animosity surrounding the debate on globalization requires that a holistic approach be adopted when analyzing this issue. Globalization is a prismatic phenomenon, which should be looked at in all its manifestations and from different angles. What is globalization? What accounts for the unequal distribution of globalization effects around the world? What is the impact of globalization on the...

2 PROTOCOL I feel greatly honoured to be invited to this very important event to share my experiences from the point of view of poor African women currently smarting under the pangs of globalization and its associated programmes. My perspective on this issue derives from an ongoing research conducted by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) on the political economy of globali...