GLOBALIZATION
Development can be
viewed as economic growth coupled with the social changes that accompany
it. It is generally improving living standards in the world, yet
the gap between the rich and the poor is growing. Globalization is
seen as absorbing and eradicating regional, social and economic differences,
though development has brought unanticipated negative consequences.
It has contributed to the extinction of species and cultures and led to
the formation of global problems—issues that catch the world’s attention,
cannot be easily solved, dramatize the world’s interdependence, and are
often unforgettable and interrelated. Much of the focus today is
on sustainable solutions to global problems.
RELATED SITES
Economic &
Social Development Web Site
The United Nations programme of international cooperation for development
promotes broad-based, sustainable development through multidimensional
and integrated approach to economic, environmental, gender, population
and social issues.
Guide
to Globalization
Oneworld.net's guides aim to challenge and inform, questioning assumptions
and suggesting alternatives on the subjects that really matter.
Globalization:
Threat
or Opportunity?
An IMF Issues Brief. The IMF is an international organization
of 182 member countries, established to promote international monetary
cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to
foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary
financial assistance to countries under adequate safeguards to help ease
balance of payments adjustment.
United Nations Development
Programme
UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable
human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and
carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation
and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection
and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication.
See also: Sustainable
Livelihoods - Poverty and the UN Development Programme.
Cultural
Diversity, Globalization and Cultural Convergence
This project aims to provide an overview of the three main areas that
the intercultural encounter and the globalization encompass. Primarily,
what makes cultures different from each other? Secondly it aims to provide
an overview of trends that have had a deep impact on cultures and intercultural
encounters, and facilitated the globalization and emergence of a cosmopolitan
culture. Thirdly it looks at the process the individual goes through in
an intercultural encounter, and how it adapts to culture shifts in its
environment.
Esperanto
- Common Language
Multilingual Information Center about Esperanto, a language created
to facilitate communication between people of different countries and cultures
and serve as a common second language for the world.
Jubilee
2000 - Debt Forgiveness Campaign
Jubilee 2000 is an international movement calling for: cancellation
of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000
under a fair and transparent process
Debt
Relief, Globalization, and IMF Reform
An IMF Issues Brief. Questions and Answers.