... Five Year Plan was being formed, China's economy was predominantly agricultural. They lagged behind the West, and were unprepared for the possible outbreak of war. Political isolation and an economic embargo against China led by Western countries, that were unhappy with China's switch to a socialist regime, were ... a successful effect on China. However, due to certain governmental decisions and actions, catastrophic events occurred. Incorrect figures regarding agricultural output, and the elimination of private farming plots, led to one the worst events in China's recent history, the Gr...

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... During the early 1950's, Brazil had just started its industrialization process. It expanded important parts of its economy by investing in the automobile industry, steel, and petrochemicals. Interestingly, during the Second World War, Brazil's Gross National Product was among the highest in the world – with a 7.4%. After the war was over, investments geared towards what seems to be one of the biggest problems ... 60% of the country's gross domestic product. Its annual GDP was at a high of 650 billion dollars in 1999. According to the Embassy of Brazil in Wellington, "An important fract...

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... dialectical dimensions of the process: Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. This is a dialectical process because such local happenings may move in an obverse direction from the very distanciated relations that shape them. Local ... of Globalization When most people talk of globalization, it is taken for granted that this is a new phenomenon but the promoter of globalization occurred since the end of the cold wa...

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