Empirical studies of public opinion regarding globalization have to date addressed only economic integration. By way of comparison, we know much less about public opinion regarding cultural globalization. In addition, there has been little head-to-head testing of alternative explanations for public opinions in these areas. I contrast four arguments: skills, partisanship, economic evaluations, a...

The prevailing theorizing of globalization’s influence of human well-being suggests to assess both the favorable and unfavorable outcomes. This study formulates a dialectical model, adopts a comprehensive globalization measure and uses a three-wave panel data during 1980-2000 to empirically test direct and indirect effects of global flows’ human consequences. The outcomes from random effect mod...

Anecdotal and descriptive evidence has led to the claim that globalization plays a major role in inducing overweight and obesity in developing countries, but robust quantitative evidence is scarce. We undertook extensive econometric analyses of several datasets, using a series of new proxies for different dimensions of globalization potentially affecting overweight in up to 887,000 women aged 1...

in recent years, the issue of globalization has become the focus of researchers and policymakers. there are some indicators to measure and evaluate globalization in different countries. the kof index is the most famous index which measure three aspects of globalization: economic, political, and social. in this paper, the impact of globalization on the building human resource (bhr) among the 56 ...

This article explores the intricate interrelationships between discourses on identity and themultiple processes associated with increasing globalization in the modern age. Globalization is notonly often exclusively associated with worldwide economic integration and the emergence of aborderless global market but also involves sweeping changes on the social, cultural and politicaldomains. Further...

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...

2 PROTOCOL I feel greatly honoured to be invited to this very important event to share my experiences from the point of view of poor African women currently smarting under the pangs of globalization and its associated programmes. My perspective on this issue derives from an ongoing research conducted by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) on the political economy of globali...

In this paper, an architecture for communication support for collaborative applications is described. The motivation for the design of this architecture is the observation that generic support for group communications is an area which received not much attention until now. The design is based on two components, a group management system (GMS) and group communication support (GCS). The GMS is re...

We introduce novel multiscale kernels using the random walk framework and derive corresponding embeddings and pairwise distances. The fractional moments of the rate of continuous time random walk (equivalently diffusion rate) are used to discover higher order kernels (or similarities) between pair of points. The formulated kernels are isometry, scale, and tessellation invariant, can be made glo...