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Globalization


The World Bank probably best represents the current "establishment" view on globalization.

1. How does the site summarize globalization?



2. Go to the "Key Readings" section. Pick three readings and summarize their main points. Do you agree with these points? Why or why not?




3. Peruse the "News and Speeches" section. Pick three recent events. Give the basic facts regarding them and explain their relationship to globalization.




Now go to the Web site of a group critical of globalization:

The International Forum on Globalization


4. Why and when was the IFG formed? What are its main goals?




5. What are some specific problems the IFG associates with globalization?




6. What does the IFG say about the World Bank?




7. What does the IFG say about the World Trade Organization?




8. What is your own assessment of globalization? Upon what facts and theories do you base this assessment?

 
 
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