Tag Archives : globalization

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change [...]

Neoliberalism is founded on free trade, the concept of private business, and a minimal role of the state. It is the mental framework of globalization. It also comes with a huge social cost. To offer a comprehensive paradigm to replace neoliberal globalization is deglobalization for the developing countries. The deglobalization paradigm rests on some [...]

New Scientist conducted a geo-spatial analysis very intriguing, which identified the most remote areas (for a road, railway or sea) from urban centers. The model combines some information about the terrain and access to roads, trains and rivers. There were also considered factors such as altitude, slope and barriers such as border crossings. After done [...]

There is good reason for the People’s Republic of China to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It is, after all, the world’s most populous and industrious nation. It is also the world’s third largest economy and trading nation. The country has been a scientific and technological innovator. It has started to build a world-class university [...]

Globalization is really the primordially operational definition of the internationalization of financial markets, trade, and commerce. The term has earned a certain stigma because, unfortunately, the world stage can never be a democratic level playing field as far as trade is concerned. Thus, globalized trade can result in global trade imbalance that [...]

As the world economy – indeed the world – is going to look like after the financial crisis? This will prove to be a mere change or something more fundamental? Much of the answer is provided by the performance of the two Asian giants, China and India. So right or wrong, it is widely accepted that China will continue growing very rapidly. [...]

Food buyers nowadays demand to know where food products come from. Information about food sources has been deemed crucial in the light of the food poisoning scare from several food items over the past years. These food safety scandals have been brought about by the salmonella and E. coli poisoning in farm produce and peanut butter, as well as the melamine-tainted [...]

Singapore has one of the most conducive business climates in the world. If you wish to migrate to Singapore and set up your own business on the city-state, you will find that the country makes it easy, encouraging, and favorable for people like you. The country is strategically located on the cusp between the developed West and the potentially developing [...]

There are common trends in this global business of hatred. Tensions, escalating numbers of deaths, and the very reason behind the violence are all the same. All for the occupation of land. Singur and Nandigram in India have been hotspots of violence because corporate mafias grab land for the sake of putting up Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Violent [...]

Singapore is strategically located on the divide between the generally developed Western hemisphere and the potentially broad development of the Eastern hemisphere. It is a powerful springboard from one side to the other. The country has maximized its role of being a bridge for trade and commerce through its comprehensive transportation, communication, [...]