During that period, international standards were also agreed for telegraphy and signalling. ... Air travel and the development of international communications enhanced the progress of international business. ... Pro-globalisation International organisations: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) was established in 1995 to administer the rules of international trade agreed to by its 123 member countries. ... The United Nations says the broader global responsibility requires international institutions. ... The Centre for International Environmental Law based in Geneva works closely with Gree...

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Globalization is usually facilitated by the significant lowering or removal of obstructions that normally hinders cross-border activities both through technological processes (especially in transportation and communications) and also the removal of policy and political hindrance (e.g. tax, investment restrictions, tariffs, labour laws, etc). ... In international relations, a state in its conventional structure is possibly most suitably described as a clearly distinct territory which: (i) is acknowledged internationally as a state, (ii) is presided over by a government able to construct and imp...

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TNCs often use conditions that result in manipulated international trade pacts or agreements, in order to maximize profits, via things such as cheap labor. ... The World Trade Organization is the primary international body to help promote free trade, by drawing up the rules of international trade. ... The WTO serves as an international body on matters that directly affect all citizens of the world and yet it is nto part of the various United Nations bodies, which is arguably a more humanitarian body. ... This sounds good at first, however, what has happened is some national laws and decisio...

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Globalization usually refers to economic globalization, that which brings national economies into the international economy through trade and foreign investment, according to Al-Rodhan from Definitions of Globalization. ... The issue of globalization is not only controversial but international as well. ... However, I firmly support the idea that globalization is an advantageous and sound international activity that should be continued. ... For example, during the twentieth century the United States had to rectify many labor laws and factories in order to better the welfare and safety of the w...

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Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. ... Globalization paves the way for international trade and it also allows people to buy goods at a lower cost. ... People have been no longer satisfied with trading only in their countries so they started international trade. International trade has contributed to set up international companies. ... Nowadays, companies generally want to build their factories in other countries which are especially developing countries because environmental laws ...

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The WTO in fact is an organization that is concerned with globalization on all levels, for all countries, whether poor or rich, they try to reach out to all and make sure their laws are fair to all and they rule with great dignity and legitimacy. ... The WTO is more like a sheriff and plays a role of making sure all members that belong to the WTO play fairly and follow the laws that have been set. ... So they have made laws or steps to prevent this hazardous outcome. ... They reduce the predictability and transparency of international trade and distort the international flow of goods and ...

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If adopted, it could remove the ability of every government to create or maintain laws and regulations protecting the health, safety and well-being of their citizens and the environment they share. Worse, the FTAA would become the model for future world trade agreements, eventually rendering health, environmental and other laws around the world secondary to those of international trade. ... "Services" is the fastest growing sector in international trade, and of all services, health, education and water are becoming the most important of all. ... These and other services have been targeted by p...

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Whole heartedly I believed A fully globalize central economy is the way of the future, unfortunately, due to the current system of individual state governments, banks, and the lack of international fiscal policy, complete success is still impossible. If we as an international community could create a World government and international World Bank that would create policies to Stabilize international economy, provide a safety net for victims (of depression or recession), and create international trade laws we may be able to fully embrace, accept and benefit from the process of globalization....

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Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ... Globalisation must not be seen as a homogeneous or totalising process but one in which economic, socio-political and cultural dynamics (both historical and immediate) and sub national, national, international and super-regional processes are all at work. ... [i]f we do not have greater equity and social justice, there will be no political stability and without politica...

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World Trade Organization: Good or Bad? The world trade organization (WTO) is an international body established in 1994 to introduce, apply, and oversee international trade regulations and laws. The WTO was designed to create and enforce world trade agreements, as well as to enforce pre...

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Some problems are common to many international businesses, factors such as language and cultural differences may limit company's success in certain countries. ... AIRCOM International won the award for the "best exporting business 2001" (Source - http://www.aircom.co.uk/corporate/awards). ... Radebaugh describe in their book, International Business Environments and Operations that: "franchising is a specialist form of licensing in which the franchisor not only sells an independent franchisee the use of the intangible property (usually the trademark) essential to the franchisee'...

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Thus to keep politicians and policymakers around the world accountable, a worldwide body or bodies is needed to force all the nations of the world to abide by certain rules on a global level in order to assure that the economic interests of the people, in developed and undeveloped nations alike, are presented in the international policies of the nations of the world. ... Multilateral trade negotiations which began with the creation of the GATT in 1947 have over the last 55 years have been enacting trade laws and regulations with the purpose of liberalizing trade. ... The interests of undevelop...

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The French find this very annoying and have even passed laws to try to keep English words out of their language. ... The higher paying jobs were performed by someone from somewhere else, which means that a lot of the money brought in by tourism will end up going to were the international corporations running the hotels. ...

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The French find this very annoying and have even passed laws to try to keep English words out of their language. ... The higher paying jobs were performed by someone from somewhere else, which means that a lot of the money brought in by tourism will end up going to were the international corporations running the hotels. ...

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From that time up to now, we made improvements in economics, politics, and law and also in social life. ... For example, today's administration is making new rules to support local and international investors to invest in Turkey. ...

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