Is globalization good or bad?

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I have chosen to focus my work on the subject of Globalization in order to understand this notion better and increase my knowledge in this domain. It is very important for me to understand it well because I want work in the field of marketing and event management. According to the university of Auckland business school Marketing is defined as the area of management responsible for researching and satisfying customer needs, through market planning, product and service development, pricing, advertising, promotion and distribution. Marketing also focuses on developing and managing ongoing relationships with customers, competitors, partners, suppliers and other stakeholders." This definition shows that having some notions about this phenomenon is fundamental. Knowing things about globalization definitely include in consequence having an idea and considering this aspect that has changed the world. Since the emergence of the notion of globalization, the world has gone through a series of modifications.

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[...] But I am totally convinced that nowadays globalization increase inequalities, and widen the gap between rich and poor. Because rich countries can reap the rewards from these progress whereas poor's ones can only undergo consequences. I think that, to resolve this noticing and to get advantages of this aspect, developed countries have to change their points of view and their way of acting. They don't have to think selfishly, only looking at how to make profit, to earn money and to be powerful. [...]

[...] They all have known dark times but with this informal alliance they have overcome their personal problems. They have some common things such as the fact that they were manufacturing centers and great ports. Also because they are political centers, command centers and global economics centers. This link offers them to become stronger. They can face economic matter. This network of international trading and personal contacts, facilitate their key industry. This is where the great banks have their headquarters and where ambitious companies go to seek financing or go public. “World Government is coming . [...]

[...] The social aspect of globalization is, for instance, mainly visible with Internet. It allows links everywhere in a world thanks to connections between people. People can, for example meet them, discuss from their home, the street, their work just thanks to the web . People, spread around the world, are linking up in cyberspace to meet en share common interests with the result that members of blogs, forums, and clubs on the net come from all over the world. To illustrate this idea of social network on the Internet there are famous clubs such as Friday club or Mobile Monday. [...]

[...] We can notice that international trades for rich or developed countries have augmented from 32.3 to between 1990 and 2001 whereas for developing countries it rose from 33.8 to 48.9 percent in the same period. The share of services in world output was in 1960 and almost in 2000. We can also see that over the past four decades, developing countries' participation in total world exports of merchandise and services has increased. Exports of services have grown a year too in developing countries and in developed countries during 1980–2002. Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures UNITED NAT I O N S CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT 2004 Moreover, globalization infers on employment. [...]

[...] This economic liberalization process has started in early 1990s. It's both a great challenge and an opportunity for businesses because they have to change their way of working, their way of looking at the market and they also need, consequently to reorganize everything. It's an opportunity because those who will succeed will make a lot of benefits and will become extremely powerful. Over the past decade, firms based in one country have increasingly made investments to establish and organize efficient business operations in other countries. [...]