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The global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import fees and the reduction of restrictions on the movement of capital and on investment.
TWO CHARACTERISTICS:
TWO FORCES:
Falling Barriers to Trade/ Investment
GATT WTO
Technological Innovation
Internet Communication Transportation
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Multi-National Strategy
Adapt products and marketing strategies in each national market to suit local preferences
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. -Larry Elder
Outsourcing - Businesses moving manufacturing sectors to other countries in order to reduce labor costs and increase efficiency.
Ex. car parts, computer parts, toys, clothes, etc.
Increasing outsourcing of information and service sector jobs as communication technologies improve.
Ex.: Call centers in India
Sweatshop: A manufacturing workplace that typically treats its workers inhumanely, paying low wages, and imposing harsh and unsafe working conditions In some countries, workers do not have the protections that they have here
regulations, etc.
Advantages:
Increases wealth and efficiency in developed and developing nations Creates jobs in developed and developing nations Advances developing nations economies Decreases poverty in developing nations
Disadvantage
Increased likelihood of economic disruptions in one nation effecting all nations Increase in the chances of civil war within developing countries and open war between developed countries as they via for resources Decreases in environmental integrity as polluting corporations take advantage of weak regulatory rules in developing countries
UNETHICAL PROBLEMS:
Global Inequality
Widening gap of rich and poor
Environmental Regulations
Emission of harmful toxins
No benefits
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. -- Kofi Annan