Partly because Gatt was not always dogmatic about free trade, it allowed most countries to figure out their own economic objectives, within a somewhat international ambit. These were useful for countries that were recovering from the war and needed to build up their own industries via tariffs — duties imposed on particular imports.
Gatt, however, failed to cover many of the countries in the developing world. Under this rubric, many countries — especially in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia — adopted a policy of protecting homegrown industries by replacing imports with domestically produced goods.
It worked poorly in some places — India and Argentina, for example, where the trade barriers were too high, resulting in factories that cost more to set up than the value of the goods they produced — but remarkably well in others, such as east Asia, much of Latin America and parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where homegrown industries did spring up. The critical turning point — away from this system of trade balanced against national protections — came in the s.
Flagging growth and high inflation in the west, along with growing competition from Japan, opened the way for a political transformation. Not only did these ideologies take hold in the US and the UK; they seized international institutions as well.
Gatt renamed itself as the World Trade Organization WTO , and the new rules the body negotiated began to cut more deeply into national policies.
Its international trade rules sometimes undermined national legislation. The purest version of hyperglobalisation was tried out in Latin America in the s. Well into the s, economists were proclaiming the indisputable benefits of openness. But the Washington consensus was bad for business: most countries did worse than before. Growth faltered, and citizens across Latin America revolted against attempted privatisations of water and gas.
In Argentina, which followed the Washington consensus to the letter, a grave crisis resulted in , precipitating an economic collapse and massive street protests that forced out the government that had pursued privatising reforms. These revolts were a preview of the backlash of today. R odrik — perhaps the contemporary economist whose views have been most amply vindicated by recent events — was himself a beneficiary of protectionism in Turkey.
This personal understanding of the mixed nature of economic success may be one of the reasons why his work runs against the broad consensus of mainstream economics writing on globalisation. Instead, it was that the mainstream had lost touch with the diversity of opinions and methods that already existed within economics.
The benefits of globalisation have been largely concentrated in a handful of Asian countries. And even in those countries, the good times may be running out. Economist Richard Baldwin has shown in his recent book, The Great Convergence, that nearly all of the gains from globalisation have been concentrated in six countries.
Today, the political priorities were less about trade and more about the challenge of retraining workers , as technology renders old jobs obsolete and transforms the world of work. Rodrik, too, believes that globalisation, whether reduced or increased, is unlikely to produce the kind of economic effects it once did. Yet recent statistics show the world as a whole is deindustrialising.
Countries that one would have expected to have more industrial potential are going through the stages of automation more quickly than previously developed countries did, and thereby failing to develop the broad industrial workforce seen as a key to shared prosperity. For both Rodrik and Wolf, the political reaction to globalisation bore possibilities of deep uncertainty.
Rodrik pointed to a belated emphasis, both among political figures and economists, on the necessity of compensating those displaced by globalisation with retraining and more robust welfare states. But pro-free-traders had a history of cutting compensation: Bill Clinton passed Nafta, but failed to expand safety nets.
Rodrik felt that economics commentary failed to register the gravity of the situation: that there were increasingly few avenues for global growth, and that much of the damage done by globalisation — economic and political — is irreversible.
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It heightens competition within domestic product, capital, and labour markets, as well as among countries adopting different trade and investment strategies.
But how do these impacts net out? What are the positive and negative effects of globalization? The advantages of globalization are actually much like the advantages of technological improvement. They have very similar effects: they raise output in countries, raise productivity, create more jobs, raise wages, and lower prices of products in the world economy.
What might be the advantages of globalization that someone would feel in their day-to-day life? I think something that's not sufficiently appreciated about, for instance, international trade is that it reduces the prices of goods that they consume. So if you look at day-to-day things that you purchase, in terms of washing machines, or cars, or even clothing, because of international trade we've had a decline in prices of these goods, so they have become far more affordable for a lot of people in the world.
How have the benefits played out in advanced economies versus poorer ones over the last three decades? Both advanced economies and developing economies have benefited overall in terms of having higher productivity, more job creation, and higher wages. As we've always known, and this is true again with technology, there are always some winners and losers.
So there are communities and there are workers who lose out when there is more trade integration. That is what we're seeing right now in terms of discontent with international trade.
The biggest losers from international trade are always those whose skills have a cheaper competitor in a different market.
The U. This has created a culture of fear for many middle class workers who have little leverage in this global game. Many think there is a threat of corporations ruling the world because they are gaining power, due to globalization.
The UN Development Program reports that the richest 20 percent of the world's population consume 86 percent of the world's resources while the poorest 80 percent consume just 14 percent. Prisoners and child workers are used to work in inhumane conditions.
Safety standards are ignored to produce cheap goods. There is also an increase in human trafficking. Globalization is an economic tsunami that is sweeping the planet.
Leadership — We need politicians who are willing to confront the cheaters. One of our biggest problems is that 7 of our trading partners manipulate their currencies to gain unfair price advantage which increases their exports and decreases their imports. This is illegal under WTO rules so there is a sound legal basis to put some kind of tax on their exports until they quit cheating. Balanced Trade — Most of our trading partners can balance their trade budgets and even run a surplus.
The trade deficit is the single biggest job killer in our economy, particularly manufacturing jobs. We need the government to develop a plan to begin to balance our trade deficit even though this is not a political priority in either party. The upcoming Trans Pacific Trade Agreement will do the same thing and Congress should not fast track this bad agreement for a dozen reasons. Enforcing the rules — China ignores trade rules and WTO laws with reckless abandon.
Besides currency manipulation they subsidize their state owned companies to target our markets, and provide funding to their state owned companies that dump their products in America. They also steal our technologies, sell counterfeit versions of our products, and impose tariffs and other barriers anytime they want - as we do nothing to stop them.
Anti-globalization in the world. Deglobalization Webinar-slides Deglobalisation and its impacts. What to Upload to SlideShare. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. And Everyone Else's Lindsey Stanberry. The Behavioral Investor Daniel Crosby.
Dan Ariely. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Teresita Cunahap. Show More. Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. Anti-globalization 1. We are persistently being reminded that we live in a globalized world. These benefits of modern consumer life are all linked to globalization. On the contrary, people are scared for their livelihoods, living conditions and natural environment, in both richer as well as poorer countries. These aspects of globalization cast a shadow over future prosperity.
Before starting to write an essay differentiating between pro-globalization and anti-globalization, we should first know what actually globalization is all about. Globalization is an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have united through a globe-spanning network of communication and execution.
It began in the late 19th century however; its spread slackened during the period from the start of First World War until the third quarter of the 20th century. This slowdown can be attributed to the inward looking policies pursued by a number of countries in order to protect their respective industries.
However, the pace of globalization picked up rapidly during the fourth quarter of the 20th century. As a result of this upsurge observed in globalization, the term was more often used by economists, entrepreneurs, etc.
The International Monetary Fund in early introduced the four basic facets of globalization viz. Along with these four aspects, environmental challenges such as climate change, cross-boundary water and air pollution, and over-fishing of the oceans are also linked with globalization.
Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment. Types of Globalization Now, the question here comes that on what basis we will segregate globalization into two buckets i.
There should be some parameters and views separating one from the other. Let us go through each of these one by one. Definitions: Pro-globalization refers to the policies that encourage increased trade, open communication, and the unrestricted movement of people among nations. Pro-globalization companies, organizations, and individuals support policies such as free trade, offshored manufacturing, and open borders, and oppose limitations such as tariffs, embargos, and other internationally restrictive economic and political actions by national governments.
Anti-globalization on the other hand refers to the movement whose participants are opposed to capitalism and globalization. The philosophy of the movement is based on the belief that individuals and organizations can achieve social, personal and economic goals without the negative consequences associated with capitalism.
The anti-globalization movement places more emphasis on economic efficiency and human decency versus corporate competition and profits at any cost. To understand more about Pro-globalization, let us focus on its behavior, ideology and impacts in detail. Pro-globalization particularly shows the positive side of the advancements and happenings which are resultant of the globalization.
This rapid growth was observed after the dawn of 20th Century.
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