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'. ... In so doing, it will address three general charges often laid at economic globalisation's door: (i) That it is widening the income gap between rich and the poor and generating uneven development both within states and between states; (ii) that economic liberalisation has proceeded too rapidly and this has led market failures, especially in financial markets of the ...

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Removal of state subsidies and tariff barriers may have adversely affected the standard of living of workers and the growth prospects of certain industrial sectors in the periphery, but they were needed medicine in order to get the prices right Western development institutions, notably the IMF, the World Bank and their major members attributed poor records to the prevailing policies and strategies of development which had been pursued in the post-war era. ... As Adrian Leftwich notes, the aim of adjustment was to shutter the dominant post-war, state-led development paradigm and overcome the p...

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Before this , during post-colonial era, Malaysia is concerning on agriculture as the main source of its income. ... And in around May this year, due to the recent war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak in Asia, Dr. ...

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Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed as political turmoil created the Great Depression. ...

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In 1981 the country entered "The Era of Reaganomics" and experienced the longest era of economic expansion in peace-time ever-for any country in the history of the world.2 This paper will show how the Reagan Administration's policies affected the economy of the 1980's. ... One problem was that the Reagan Administration was fighting the Cold War, trying to outspend the Soviets in the military, making ours far superior to theirs and giving them no hope for victory. ...

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On the surface this is a sincere concern on behalf of sincere Muslims who see Islam as the solution but are apprehensive of the Khilafah's ability to survive in an era of globalisation. ... We could quite easily fill these pages with various definitions of globalisation by individuals such as Joseph Stiglitz, Anthony Giddens, Paul Krugman and Gordon Brown but this would defeat the objective of this article as it would make the article another piece of academic regurgitation rather than dealing with the reality that faces the world today in an era of vulgar capital and finance moving aroun...

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Reasons for Current Economy With the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, and the end of the Cold War, the West was eager to support Russia and all of the former Eastern Block countries in the transition to Capitalism and democracy. ... As noted in the article "Can't buy me love" in The Economist, "This would place the world's sixth-most-populous country, a nuclear superpower and a permanent member of the UN Security Council in the company of such countries as Afghanistan and the Congo - poor war-ridden places, some barely existing as states". ...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. ...

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