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Qu’est-ce que la mondialisation ?

Nayan Chanda November 19, 2002

¿Qué es la Globalización?

Nayan Chanda November 19, 2002

It’s Right to Rebel

Amartya Sen November 19, 2002
The throngs of protestors that flock to every major international conference or summit claim as their goal the reversal of Western-dominated globalization. But these protestors, themselves the products of globalization, often find their constructive criticism drowned out by inflammatory rhetoric. Amartya Sen writes that continuing to raise questions and doubts about the market system and other...

Small Screen, Smaller World

Walid Mougayar October 11, 2002
When TV manufacturers outsource their products along a global supply chain, they create a win-win-win situation. The manufacturers have lower costs, the consumers have cheaper TV sets, and the sets are better made. Standardization of parts, economies of scale and lower transportation costs have made most TV factories assemblers rather than manufacturers. Parts from all the over the world are...

Unilateral Action Would Make for a Very Difficult World - Kofi Annan

October 4, 2002
In a wide-sweeping question and answer session following a speech at Yale University, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan emphasized that peace and security in the international order were the responsibility of all nations, not only the US. The UN Security Council was charged with this duty, he said, and any nation that ignored that would undermine stability in the world. - YaleGlobal

Transcript of Q&A with Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General

October 3, 2002
United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, responded to a series of questions posed to him following his speech on globalization at Yale University. Mr. Annan offered his views on the current Iraq-US conflict, the global AIDS pandemic, the Kashmir conflict, the International Criminal Court. He also shared his personal thoughts on the challenges of leading the world's largest...

Globalization’s Glass House Must Remain Open

Kofi Annan October 1, 2002
In an address at Yale University, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, made a forceful appeal to the developed world to work towards an inclusive globalization. He said the world had no choice. “Either we help the outsiders in a globalized world out of a sense of moral obligation and enlightened self-interest, or we will find ourselves compelled to do so tomorrow, when their...