Quotes About Globalization

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

In 2018, there were 867 cars for every thousand people in the United States, 520 in the European Union. Compare that to the 339 in Russia, the 208 in Brazil, the 160 in China—and just 37 in India. In other words, the world's auto population will grow substantially as incomes rise and the number of people increases from today's 7.8 billion to 9.5 or 10 billion.

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Globalization made the large open spaces of the Americas, its "open frontiers," valuable. Often these frontiers were only mythically open, since they were inhabited by indigenous peoples who were brutally dispossessed. All the same, the scramble for this newly valuable resource was one of the defining processes of the Americas in the second half of the nineteenth century.

It is impossible to understand many of the poorest regions of the world at the end of the twentieth century without understanding the new absolutism of the twentieth century: communism.

En una versión algo posmoderna de la teoría de la modernización, el columnista de The New York Times Thomas Friedman llegó a sugerir que, cuando un país tiene suficientes McDonald's, aparecen sin duda la democracia y las instituciones.

Japan and Singapore never had more than a sprinkling of inhabitants of European descent, yet they are as prosperous as many parts of Western Europe.

La desigualdad mundial existe actualmente porque, durante los siglos XIX y XX, algunos países fueron capaces de aprovechar la revolución industrial y las tecnologías y los métodos de organización que aportaba mientras que otros no.

The average Egyptian has an income level of around 12 percent of the average citizen of the United States and can expect to live ten fewer years; 20 percent of the population is in dire poverty. Though these differences are significant, they are actually quite small compared with those between the United States and the poorest countries in the world, such as North Korea, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, where well over half the population lives in poverty.

In the case of China, the growth process based on catch-up, import of foreign technology, and export of low-end manufacturing products is likely to continue for a while.

oportunidades que surgieron a partir del siglo XIX y qué países no lo iban a hacer. Las raíces de la desigualdad mundial que observamos hoy en día pueden encontrarse en esta divergencia. Salvo contadas excepciones, los países ricos actuales son aquellos que se embarcaron en el proceso de industrialización y cambio tecnológico que empezó en el siglo XIX, y los pobres, los que no lo hicieron. 11

Tradicionalmente, la economía ha ignorado la política, pero la comprensión de la política resulta esencial para explicar la desigualdad del mundo.

Inequality in the modern world largely results from the uneven dissemination and adoption of technologies

The decline of labor coercion is not the only factor transforming the corridor. Another important economic trend, but with more complex, multifaceted implications for liberty, is globalization.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

Growing up I thought all countries look, were required to look, completely different?Congo was all jungle, robust and wet and green, Germany was all black forests, Russia was white, all of it Siberian. But every country now seemed to offer a little of every other country, and every given landscape, I finally realized, existed somewhere in the U.S.

cherries grown in Colombia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, Hawaii, Jamaica and Ethiopia.

David A. Livermore

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is. When

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.

June nodded. "Oh, now we know that. But then? The net was supposed to be their baby. Their tool! It would replace big banks as an instrument of control, above nations and governments. Above even money.

Growing up among cultural differences is already, or soon will be, the rule rather than the exception—even for those who never physically leave their home country.

The Five Initiatives 1.?Growth (via customer service, globalization, and technology) 2.?Productivity (went hand-in-hand with growth) 3.?Cash (improve working capital and have high-quality earnings) 4.?People (keep the best talent, organized the right way and motivated) 5.?Organizational enablers (including Six Sigma, Honeywell Operating System, and Functional Transformation)