Globalization is currently being aided by:?

Question

a) Improvements in telecommunications.

c) Compueter technology.

c) Transportation Infrastructure.

d) All of the above.

Answer 1

It may be aided by these things (d), but does that make it good or correct. This question also missing the point that globalization is being pushed by corporations that want to increase profits. If you read your Noam Chomsky text, you will realize that where US aid has "helped" poor countries, the GNP has increased while the rate of starvation increases!

Globalization is not just a force of nature that just happens. Large corporations pressure US government to go forward with programs that will help them.

In actuality, it is an effort to help support corporate profits. Globalization is very good for investors and it is very bad for the populations of the countries being globalized.

I just saw a Franklin Templeton Investments commercial that showed a peasant woman walking through a traditional Asian market. The commerical suggests that by investing through this company, you can help transform her life so that she can walk through a western style grocery store. I was appalled by the frozen foods section and the wall-to-wall plastic packaging. This is very bad for the world's environment. It's also bad for most of the people in those countries who will not be able to afford food in these affluent grocery stores.

American investments overseas can lead to higher GNP, but it has also inevitably leds to higher rates of starvation.

Thanks NBC for bringing the French Open to TV, however, has anyone at Franklin Templeton Investments thought throught the consequences of their globalization efforts?

Answer 2

d

Answer 3

d)