Sunday, April 10, 2011

Causes and effects of globalization

Nowadays, there are phenomena that hurt to one person, a single state to a region, but the phenomenon of globalization harms and involves a large number of people and activities in most parts of the world.
This phenomenon called globalization can be defined as growth of political, economic and social frontiers where the resolutions and activities in one area influence other regions.
Globalization as a worldwide phenomenon causes the increase of the economic opening movements , allows a growth of international trade in goods and services, provides increased transportation and communication, and in addition, it allows major labor mobility.
In the last years, globalization has both positive and negative effects for a large number of countries and people to increase their welfare or decreasing it.
Among the positive effects that globalization produces we can mention that it contributes to the economic increase of the countries, allows the incorporation of new technologies and makes possible the integration of developing countries to international markets.
 In the other hand, among the negative effects we can mention that produces a strong environmental deterioration, there is a growing inequality between countries and individuals, generates to higher unemployment and growth of ignorance or disrespect of cultures from undeveloped countries.
In conclusion, we can mention that globalization has its pros and cons, and this phenomenon can produce an unjust natural distribution and over-exploitation of resources generating more benefits in developed countries and causing a social injustice where the poor become poorer.

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