Globalization Conference

Constructs of Globalization and Cultural Competencies: Navigating a Changing Global Economy - NASSS Conference Program 2013

An Analysis of Effective Factors on the Technical Efficiency of Health Production in the OIC Countries

 The importance of community's health followed by the consideration of endogenous growth models has led to an increase in health expenditure of countries to speed up economic growth and development. This has made the efficiency of health production function to an essential issue especially in developing countries. Based upon this, the present study with employing the stochastic frontier analysi...

Conference on Globalization, Political Economy and Trade Policy - Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute 2009 Annual Report - FRB Dallas

On April 24 and 25, 2009, the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute joined with Southern Methodist University to cosponsor a conference on Globalization, Political Economy and Trade Policy at SMU’s Collins Executive Education Center. Nine scholarly papers were presented and discussed in three sessions. The first session consisted of two papers describing offshoring’s impact on the distrib...

Have You Got Anything to Declare? Neo-Colonialism, Information Systems, and the Imposition of Customs and Duties in a Third World Country

Many researchers agree that information and communications technologies are deeply implicated in the process of globalization. There is much less agreement, however, on what globalization means in particular situations and contexts. This paper places the development of a specific information system in a Third World country within the context of neo-colonialism and post-colonialism. It shows how...

Global Inequality Fades as the Global Economy Grows

In this “age of globalization,” countless studies offer confl icting conclusions about overall poverty rates and income inequality worldwide. All observers agree that the rapid integration of international economies is one of the dominant experiences of the post–Cold War world. Many critics have assailed globalization as a form of extreme capitalism that is leaving the world’s poor behind. At a...

ICTs, Globalization, and Local Diversity

This paper is based on a panel discussion at the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems in Barcelona. Three panellists responded to a set of questions on the meaning of the term globalization to them, and the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The panellists also highlighted the importance of local diversity in understanding glob...