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Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn't flat |
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It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there's a delta between perception and reality in a world that's maybe not so h...
Date: 2012-11-24 18:26:15
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John Perkins on Globalization |
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For many years John Perkins claimed to have been working as something he defines to be like an "economic hit man in the world of international finance"; a function he performed by persuading Third World countries to take on large -scale public works projects. Today, we recognize that these types of ...
Date: 2012-04-01 21:53:00
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GapCast #4 - Globalization |
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With Hans Rosling How has the Global Economy effected the income of people across the world?Although the percentage of poverty has gone down, the number of poor people is still very high. Still, the percentage of people living in extreme poverty has gone down from around 40 percent 30 years ago to t...
Date: 2012-03-28 03:44:51
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Documentary - The New Rulers of The World (John Pilger) |
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'Global economy' is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald's, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss, it is the globalisation of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a phone call and live on less than two do...
Date: 2012-01-08 19:05:41
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