Quotes About Globalization

la heterogeneidad de las preferencias y la falta de singularidad institucional, junto con la geografía, crean una necesidad de diversidad institucional. La diversidad institucional impide la plena globalización económica. A su vez, la incompleta integración económica refuerza la heterogeneidad y el papel de la distancia.

cuando la integración económica y monetaria no deja otra opción, a las democracias les cuesta tragar la amarga píldora de la austeridad. Y cuando la globalización colisiona con la política nacional, los inversores inteligentes apuestan por el equipo local. La soberanía nacional sólo puede reprimirse durante un tiempo.

Why should we allow international markets to erode domestic labor regulations through the back door when we do not allow domestic markets to do the same? The

about 48 percent of GE's software is developed in India.

To survive in this age, individuals and organizations must examine what they're doing to earn a living and ask themselves three questions: 1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper? 2. Can a computer do it faster? 3. Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance?

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

We have to be vigilant against protectionism and be constantly making the argument for free trade.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That's how far his music travelled - to a remote village on the other side of the world.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.