Globalization makes the world unequal

Globalization and disease: in an unequal world, unequal health!

In this paper, originally presented at an event held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States, the author analyzes the repercussions of globalization on various health aspects: the spread of infectious and parasitic diseases, bioterrorism, and new behavioral patterns in health, among others. He goes on to examine the positive and negative effects of international agreemen...

Globalization and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World

How will globalization affect higher education? Will globalization, the scientific community, and the Internet level the playing field in a new age of knowledge interdependence? Or will globalization produce worldwide inequality and the McDonaldization of the university? Is globalization responsible for all of the contemporary pressures on higher education—from “massification” to the growth of ...

Health in an unequal world

The Unequal World of Health Data

Health data are a slippery commodity. It is not difficult to reach subjective agreement that such data are unequally distributed around the world, both in terms of quantity and quality. But objective assessments are more difficult, since they need to be based on data—and the data about the data may themselves be problematic or incomplete. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, literature is relat...

The Globalization of the World Systems

My responsibility for this workshop is to prepare a short paper on a substantive topic that invites (a) visualization by technical methods of mapping temporal evolution, and/or (b) time-series analysis. I propose to do this by showing the group some data which I have collected, presented and analyzed in fairly straightforward ways, but which seem to me to beg for more sophisticated methods than...