The purpose of my remarks this morning is to provide some perspective on how we are thinking about globalization and its consequences for rural development in our Fund for Rural America project. Those remarks are divided into three parts. First, I want to review briefly the general effects of globalization on the location of policy making and implementation. Second, I want to review some of the...

Does globalization affect the demand-side of politics, and if so, how? This paper builds on new developments in trade theory to argue that globalization matters, but that its effects on individuals’ perceptions of labor market risk and policy preferences are more heterogenous than previous research has acknowledged. Globalization exposure increases risk perceptions and demands for social protec...

The world is entering a new path of development which is becoming the driving force of globalization. It is seen as an irreversible process of the present reality and has a significant impact on the transformation of economic, social and cultural rights. This also applies to changes in the rural environment which while emphasizing the global development should also maintain its identity and loc...

Globalization-the increasing transnational circulation of money, goods, people, ideas, and information worldwide-is generally recognized as one of the most powerful forces shaping our current and future history. How is it affecting healthcare, and in that context, what is the purpose and significance of Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM), publisher of this journal? Our goal is not ho...

In the idea of the “death of distance,” globalization discourse presents a picture of a world of global social and economic integration, declining cultural differentiation, spatial and temporal disembedding of social practices, and the economic primacy of dematerialized knowledge work. Nearshore software outsourcing, a subcategory of offshore software outsourcing in which the development center...

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 ...

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...

In this paper we provide an analytical account of the mechanisms through which globalization, in the sense of increased foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the lives of the poor in developing countries (in their capacity as workers, recipients of public services or users of common property resources). Globalization can cause many hardships for the poor, but it also opens up oppor...