Define Globalization Lecture Notes 1
Define Globalization Lecture Notes 1
Define Globalization Lecture Notes 1
Define Globalization:
Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people,
companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international
trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects
on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and
prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.
Technology has been the other principal driver of globalization. Advances in
information technology, in particular, have dramatically transformed economic life.
Information technologies have given all sorts of individual economic actors—
consumers, investors, businesses—valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing
economic opportunities, including faster and more informed analyses of economic
trends around the world, easy transfers of assets, and collaboration with far-flung
partners.
Globalization is deeply controversial, however. Proponents of globalization
argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise
their standards of living, while opponents of globalization claim that the creation of an
unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the
Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people.
Resistance to globalization has therefore taken shape both at a popular and at a
governmental level as people and governments try to manage the flow of capital, labor,
goods, and ideas that constitute the current wave of globalization.
To find the right balance between benefits and costs associated with
globalization, citizens of all nations need to understand how globalization works and
the policy choices facing them and their societies.
Regions with a higher level of entrepreneurship capital show higher levels of output
and productivity, while those lacking entrepreneurship capitals have a tendency to
generate lower levels of output and productivity.
The following are six reasons why entrepreneurship capital is important to the
economy:
For example, a few IT companies founded the Indian IT industry in the 1990s as a
backend programmers' hub. Soon the industry gathered pace in its own programmers’
domain. But more importantly, millions from other sectors benefitted from it.
Although it may make a few existing players redundant, the government can soften
the blow by redirecting surplus wealth to retrain workers.
Through their unique offerings of new goods and services, entrepreneurs break away
from tradition and indirectly support freedom by reducing dependence on obsolete
systems and technologies. Overall, this results in an improved quality of life, greater
morale and economic freedom.
For example, the water supply in a water-scarce region will, at times, force people to
stop working to collect water. This will impact their business, productivity and income.
Imagine an innovative, automatic, low-cost, flow-based pump that can fill in people's
home water containers automatically.
Such an installation will ensure people are able to focus on their core jobs without
worrying about a basic necessity like carrying water. More time to devote to work
means economic growth.
For a more contemporary example, smartphones and their smart apps have
revolutionized work and play across the globe. Smartphones are not exclusive to rich
countries or rich people either. As the growth of China's smartphone market and its
smartphone industry show, technological entrepreneurship will have profound, long
lasting impacts on the entire human race.
4. Community Development
Some famous entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, have used their money to finance good
causes, from education to public health. The qualities that make one an entrepreneur
are the same qualities that motivate entrepreneurs to take it forward.
Italy may provide an example of a place where high levels of self-employment have
proved to be inefficient for economic development. Research reveals that Italy has in
the past experienced large negative impacts on the growth of its economy because of
self-employment. There may be truth in the old saying, "too many chefs and not
enough cooks spoil the soup."