... It has no decision-making power, but many of the world's business and political leaders discuss issues of importance at WEF meetings. Internet and telecommunications industry One of the driving forces of globalisation is the advance of telecommunications in general and the internet in particular. Representative organisations regard the spread of communications technology as a benefit without qualification. For ... By featuring educational resources, articles, stories and opinions about how economic policy and development can be made more inclusive, Global Envision provides models of how ...

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... level, the prospects of securing systems of efficiency, let alone accountability seem slim. For realist scholars and practitioners of international relations this is unsurprising. They assume the absence of altruism. Force and power--not global dialogue about the prospects for community and democracy, pace the work of the cosmopolitan political theorists such as Linklater and Held36-are the ... driving forces of international relations. Yet there is a paradox. The language of democracy and justice takes on a more important rhetorical role in a global context at the same time as globalis...

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... between distinct groups. All too often trust in legitimate state authorities is severely undermined by endemic corruption. Because often the state does not enjoy effective territorial control and monopoly of force, many families are reluctant to let their children commute unsupervised to remote schools. The World Bank has conducted very successful experiments showing that free dedicated school transport is extremely successful ... thrive in school and in the wider society. Increasingly, across MDCs more women than men are complete higher education. They can become members of the highly ...

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... provides leadership to the national struggle. In other countries like Chile, the farm-workers' movement has not yet recovered from the savage repression of the Pinochet years and is a marginal force even at local levels. One of the key factors explaining the rising influence of peasant movements is their autonomy and independence from electoral parties and guerrilla "commanders- where they were ... programs. Sometimes, even the best of intentions may lead to co! ntradictory results. For example, the Hoy no circula program in Mexico City was intended to reduce traffic by forbidding drivi...

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... the private sector as it does from the public sector and families in Mauritania have to spend a fifth of their income on water. Yet the IMF and WB continue to force water privatisation and during 2000 alone, the IMF made water privatisation a condition of loan agreements to twelve African countries. In addition to the above harms of privatisation, it has also ... to globalisation as a direct result of engaging in neo-liberal policies associated with globalisation. Therefore not being part of globalisation is in fact a blessing rather than a loss as the policies driving and motoring glob...

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