Anti Globalization Research Paper

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“Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.” - Bill Gaede
This quote says it all, what globalisation means to poor and to where it may lead them tomorrow, as propounded by the advocates of anti-globalisation. Though globalisation in common parlance associated with economic sense, it means different things to different people. For the business community, globalisation refers to specific strategies in companies designed to overcome the constraints of national boundaries through the mechanism of globalized production and marketing networks, in the field of economics it is considered synonymous to economic inter-dependence between countries covering …show more content…

Further, globalization is resulting in the alienation of people by bringing them together and there is no consensus on whether the bringing of people closer and thus striving for global homogeneity/uniformity/conformity is a good development, or whether it occurs at the heavy cost of destroying indigenous or local beliefs and culture. Similarly, whether globalization increases or decreases poverty as well as economic disparity is a hotly debated and contested issue, same could be said about the impact of foreign direct investment by multinational corporations (MNCs) (the drivers of globalization) on development and human rights. What is hotly debated is that positive and the negative implications of globalization, for the realization of human rights particularly in developing …show more content…

of human rights. This being the case what is the nature of globalization? Is it pro- or anti-human rights or is it a neutral phenomenon? Globalization as a concept is neither pro- nor anti-human rights as it could offer opportunities both for the promotion and abridgment of human rights nationally & internationally, the concern is that how the process of globalization is operationalised. There are arguments that globalisation has brought dignity and prosperity to the human life while the others argue that globalisation has led to the denial of human

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