This approach echoes through out the MEDC collective, such as the USA, Japan and most of Europe, all are constantly trying to improve and be at the front line of technology. ... Poverty is the main cause of this. It's hard to imagine poverty when we live in such a sheltered world. ... The biggest problem people who live in poverty have to cope with is the lack of fresh running water. ... We look at poverty with an obscure perspective, the media never gives us the full picture, and many are unsure as to why billions of people live in poverty. ...

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Solution?? The documentary was brilliant in showing the ravaging effects of globalization on a small, relatively undeveloped economy. What it didn't offer was a solution to the problem. The corporations that exploited Jamaica are only doing what corporations are supposed to do -search for profit ...

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In general, the World Bank leans in favor of a bigger opening for the trade and the IED because the evidences suggest that the benefits as regards economic development and reduction of the poverty spread to be relatively bigger that the risks or possible costs (although attention is also paid to concrete politicians to attenuate or to alleviate those costs and risks). ... Far from condemning to those countries to that you/they continue sunk in the isolation and the poverty, it is urgent that the international community helps them to incorporate in more degree to the world economy, offe...

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It attempts to characterize globalization, and its effects on poverty, the environment, gender, culture, and political structure and dynamics. ... A sense that the world was united was generated by the establishment of the International Date Line and world time zones, together with the near global adoption of the Gregorian calendar between 1875 and 1925. ... They share a concern that the global organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are not doing enough to alleviate poverty and, indeed, may be contributing to it. ...

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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...

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Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standards "pointing" to ongoing global growth and a reduction in absolute poverty. ... Immigration rules and relative poverty mean that workers can't threaten to move in the same way. ...

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