Does globalization hinder or help wealth creation in development countries?

Does the process of Globalization help or hinder wealth creation in developing countries? ________________ Globalization is one of the most discussed topics in today`s world, and there are different opinions whether it helps or hinder wealth creation in developing countries. First, this essay will engage with defining the term globalization. After that, the essay will focus on the positive and negative effects of globalization on developing countries, such as employment, economic recession, migration, domestic economy, available capital and financial sector development. After that, the essay will try to represent a case, which will reinforce that at large, globalization has helped the wealth creation in developing countries. To understand the effects of globalization on developing countries, it is important to define first globalization. The term contains many different aspects, features and qualities. This term is generally used to define a mixture of cultural, social, economic and political changes that have created the world over the past few decades (Guttal, 2007). According to Rosenau (1997, p360) globalization is a “"a label that is presently in vogue to account for peoples, activities, norms, ideas, goods, services, and currencies that are decreasingly confined to a particular geographic space and its local and established practices". Different people have

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Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation on international development: The impact of tourism on development projects.

Norad on international development ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ Word count: 1992 ________________ Contents Introduction Norad Countries receiving Norad aid Norad’s projects. Tourism related work Case study: Conclusion Bibliography and references Images & figures: Introduction This report investigates the work of the overseas development agency Norad (as presented below) giving an insight into the organization and the work it carries out, with a specific look at tourism related projects. A short case study will be presented and analysed, and the proficiency of the agency and its work will be deduced in conclusion. Norad The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) is the development agency under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Norad presides over the majority of development assistance stemming from Norway; collecting, publishing, and discussing results on the outcomes of development assistant projects. This helps to provide advice to equip other organizations distributing aid with guidance on achieving the best results (Norad, 27/10/2011). The vision, mission, and values laid out by Norad clearly demonstrate their aims: Vision: Results in the fight against poverty. Mission: Norad is committed to ensuring the

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I have chosen to discuss Wokings Italian community, as it directly relates to my cultural heritage and experience as an AngloItalian.

Woking Brit-Italians I have chosen to discuss Woking’s Italian community, as it directly relates to my cultural heritage and experience as an Anglo-Italian. I will firstly define the term 'community' as it has several meanings, which may overlap. Then I will outline key perspectives, followed by my own views on how we have defined ourselves. I will then cover theories, practices and traditions which help to understand what is happening in my community. I will discuss the role of intercultural understanding within schools and beyond – the importance of teaching acceptance of cultural differences. I conclude with the current difficulties faced and challenges for the future. Definition of community Community can be defined in terms of a value and include a diverse number of elements: trust, solidarity, commitment, commonality. It can also be viewed as a descriptive category or set of variables. The two definitions often co-exist and can be hard to distinguish (Frazer 2000: 76). Key perspectives There was political instability following the demise of Mussolini dictatorship. The belief was that immigrating to the UK, i.e. Woking, would offer an escape from oppression and offer a more stable and egalitarian, societal structure for social and economic advancement. Socio-economic integration vs. employment outside local area. Initially, immigrants worked locally, men

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Delivering food security through conservation agriculture

DELIVERING FOOD SECURITY TOWARDS CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE . INTRODUCTION Assuring food security has been a central aspect of global governance efforts to promote prosperity, peace and stability. Unfortunately, with the growing population, trade globalization, shifting in food consumption demands, water and natural resources scarcity, instability in the volume of world food aid supply, climate change and desertification on farm land, make the food security condition is difficult to be reached (McDonald, 2011). However, McDonald (2011) highlights the fact that food security is not a target to be met, but that it is a progressive goal of ensuring access to food that is adequate, safe and nutritious. Yet, Dalby (2009) cited in McDonald (2011) points out the concerns over the impacts of population and scarcity of key resources such as food are not something new. Desertification on farm and soil degradation have an immense negative impact on the productive capacity of soils. According to some research conducted by Ye and Ranst (2009) using a web-based land evaluation system in China, food crops may experience a 9 per cent loss in productivity by 2030 if the soil continues to be degraded at the current rate. Productivity losses will increase to the unbearable level of 30 per cent by 2050 should the soil be degraded at twice the present rate. More over, soil erosion affects soil

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The Effects of the One Child Policy in China

THE WORLD’S MOST SEVERE FAMILY PROGRAMME or THE HIGH PRICE OF A LOWER POPULATION When we think about China the things that click in our heads are most probably the great blend of history, culture, and modernity, as well as the gleaming sky scrapers, thousands of factories and their recent economic boom. Along with that, a really memorable thing is that today, China's population is 1,343,239,923 (according to CIA World Factbook), making it the largest of any country in the world. The size of china’s population is both the country's greatest weakness and strength. China is one of the few contemporary countries whose National Government implemented an antinatalist policy. The so-called ‘’One-Child policy’’ is brutally simple: have one child or face the consequences. The policy’s background is deeply enrooted in the Chinese history and their family values. Before 1949, when the Communist party came to power after a revolution ,China was at stage 1 of the demographic transition , having really high birth rates (between 5 and 8 children per family), but meanwhile having high death rates and short life expectancies. In order to strengthen China’s position in the world, transform it into nation-state of significance and increase productivity, the leader Mao Zedong saw a large and healthy population as a prerequisite, therefore the entire country followed a

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Moral Panic

Explain how 'moral panic' increases fear of crime. The term 'moral panic' refers to a condition that our society is subjected to in situations that supposedly believed to be a violation of the norm. This assignment intends to establish how 'moral panic' increases fear of crime within society. In considering various studies and statistics, it will examine the differences of crime committed and reported from the post-war onwards to present day and our likelihood of being victims. By identifying the causes, characteristics and cycle of moral panic, it will illustrate the influences it has on our society, followed by a conclusion. There have been many debates about the level of crime existence in the past with comparison to recent years. Claims that in the post-war era crime hardly existed were based on the structure of society, which was characterized by stronger family values; communality and civility, where people had more respect for the authorities and fear of crime was less of an issue. Furthermore, it is common practice for middle-aged in every generation to believe their early years were much safer then today's and the young generation who are responsible for the decline of morality and increase of crime (Pearson, 1983). However, a letter written by Daniel Defoe in 1730 to the Mayor of London, not only proves that our society has always been characterized by a culture

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Sustainable Development.

Geography 9.1 Paul White Sustainable Development Sustainable Development is a method of progress that does not waste resources and looks after the needs of today without damaging resources for the future. It has sprung out of a need to protect the environment from inefficient use of energy and resources. When countries are looking to develop and make progress it is very easy for them to waste resources and damage the environment, and it is the richer countries that are the worst offenders. With only a quarter of the world's population they use up 75% of the worlds resources; most of which are non renewable and cause considerable amounts of pollution. Because of their large natural increase and fast growing population, when Poorer countries try to improve their standard of living they have neither sufficient money or technology to provide or use additional resources without damaging the environment. Now when there is a problem there is almost always a solution, and in this case the solution is Sustainable Development. There is no blueprint for sustainable development - It needs to be defined to meet and respect the particular needs and circumstances of individual countries, societies and cultures. Sustainable Development is a progress that can go on year after year. It efficiently uses, but does not waste natural resources and it should lead to an improvement of

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social science

Social Exclusion in the United Kingdom ........Social exclusion is a relatively new concept in the United Kingdom1. This is particularly so for academics studying in the area of social work and social policy analysis. Indeed, for some social scientists the emergence of the concept has been a challenge to ways of thinking about the analysis of society (Levitas 1996; Byrne 1997). Historically the United Kingdom has had a paradigm of social science that viewed social division with a distinctively different perspective from the current European usage of the concept of social exclusion. The nearest discourse to this in Anglo Saxon social science is the approach to the study of deprivation that focuses on poverty. Booth and Rowntree in the later part of the nineteenth and in the early part of the twentieth century established this tradition (Fraser 1973). Their works established a particular orientation to viewing deprived people in society from the perspective of poverty. The most significant component of poverty as they understood it was the lack of personal financial resources. Historically there has been an association of poverty studies with the academic study of social policy in the United Kingdom. In parallel the profession of social work has been informed by and is increasingly contributing to this analysis. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, however,

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Outline the effects of the communist party on Chinese national development

Outline the effects of the communist party on Chinese national development The People's Republic of China came into being on October the first 1949. Since that time the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the country's ruling party, has attempted to bring about social reconstruction and economic growth by employing different variants of 'socialist' policy. A number of periods may be identified, each characterised by particular policy directions and emphases. The principal aspects and implications of each of these will be discussed, beginning with the Rehabilitation period of 1949-52. In 1949 the Chinese communists inherited a country which was backward, poor and underdeveloped due to continuing Imperial patterns of class structure, as well as having been ravaged by two civil wars and a Japanese invasion since the 1920s (Cannon and Jenkins 1990). Before the communist development envisaged by Mao Zedong's revolutionary government could begin, it was necessary to establish administrative control over the entire territory, as well as to revive the devastated economy. The former was effectively achieved by a four tier hierarchical spatial structure with six regions as the largest divisions and thousands of 'administrative villages', each consisting of a number of natural villages as the smallest (Riskin 1987). Economic rehabilitation was partly facilitated by

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Investigation into how group dynamics affect the performance of a football team.

Sustainable forestry started in 1995 when a partnership called sustainable forestry partnership. This partnership is involved with university faculty, industry experts and non-government organisation. 'The Sustainable Forestry Partnership's mission is to document and promote innovation in sustainable forestry and integrate this innovation broadly into both policy and practice.' This is a quote from the sustainable forestry partnership. This is another true quote but the people who work in sustainable forestry companies are just trying to help the environment and provide for everyone's everyday needs without using sustainable forestry the world would soon run out off trees and then what will the world do. Using sustainable forestry the companies who provide this service actually help people to survive so I don't think sustainable forestry is that

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