1 / 9

Issues of Expanding Globalization

Issues of Expanding Globalization. Related Issue 3 To what extent should we embrace globalization?.

elaine
Download Presentation

Issues of Expanding Globalization

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Issues of Expanding Globalization

  2. Related Issue 3To what extent should we embrace globalization? In our studies of related issue #3 we will consider the following:Foundation of Economic Globalization To what extent did 20th Century world events shape contemporary economic globalization? Expanding Globalization To what extent do contemporary factors (such as transnationals, international agreements, communication technologies) contribute to expanding globalization? Globalization and Sustainability To what extent does globalization affect sustainability?Sustainable Prosperity To what extent can globalization bring sustainable prosperity to all people?

  3. Learn the TermsRefer to Chapter 9 for the answers • economic globalization • communism • economic depression • market economy • Planned economic system in which government owns all means of production and all citizens work for government controlled enterprises • Increasing economic integration between two countries, leading to the emergence of a global marketplace or a single world market. • Capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand. • Sustained, long term downturn in activity in one or more economies.

  4. World’s Worst Polluted Places • Sumgavit, Azerbaijan • Linfen, China • Tianying, China • Sukinda, India • Vadi, India • La Orova, Peru • Dzerzhinsk, Russia • Norilsk, Russia • Chernobyl, Ukraine • Kabwe, Zambia

  5. Pollution in China has reached worrying heights. Sixteen of the world's 20 most-polluted cities are in China, and pollution from China is reaching the U.S.

  6. China’s Dark Clouds http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp?fr_story=c5a2900f04776133b6e4b29fa16279f4aa6df7e4

  7. Maquilapolis: City of Factories Located along the Mexican side of the border Hundreds of factories produce a large variety of goods at a reduced price.

  8. Maquiladoras Offer employment Poor work conditions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRdu5qo-htU

  9. FoxconnElectronic manufacturer • Suicide rates at Foxconn... • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBoFxpM1UY0 • Apple-FoxconniSlave... • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOgRpO5i94&feature=related

More Related