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VW, GM and Peugeot-Citroën: Asian alliances
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:45:45 -0000
New ties for VW, GM and Peugeot Citroen signal a way forward for the car industryHAVING weathered the storm, the thoughts of global carmakers are now focused on the tie-ups they hope will give them an edge in the upturn. Two such deals, the first involving General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC, the second between Volkswagen and Suzuki, have been concluded in the past few days. Another, linking PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi, is still under negotiation. All three are aimed at winning a bigger presence in Asia and tapping into low-cost manufacturing expertise, while sharing components and development budgets. Of the three, the most significant is Volkswagen’s announcement on Wednesday December 9th that it has agreed to pay $2.5 billion for 19.9% of Suzuki, a family-owned Japanese maker of small cars and motorcycles. Along with Fiat, Suzuki is the only international outfit that knows how to make money out of small, inexpensive cars. That is something VW forgot long ago. But it needs to relearn it, argues Max Warburton of Bernstein, as asset-management firm, if it is not to suffer from the worldwide trend towards downsizing, as new emissions laws bite and growth shifts to poorer consumers in emerging markets. ...
A whole new world
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:40:33 -0000
Art is becoming increasingly globalisedWHEN nations grow richer, their citizens become more educated and have fewer children. Once they reach a certain level of affluence, they also start to buy art. Their first instinct is to seek out the traditional sort made in their own country. As they become more confident they often grow more adventurous as well, buying unfamiliar work from other countries and less traditional contemporary art produced at home that expands the boundaries of taste. This has already happened from Brisbane to Buenos Aires, and is likely to happen in many more countries as they become wealthier. Not only will there be more art buyers, but more people will become artists too, so the supply is bound to grow. Australia, India and South America all have their own home-grown art worlds, and some of their output has gained an international following. The best work will find its way into international collections. Taste in contemporary art, which was so dominated by American artists in the second half of the 20th century, will slowly begin to change, and cities such as Dubai and Hong Kong will eventually come to rival London and New York as centres of the art-buying world. ...
EDF: Nuclear contamination
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:48 -0000
The giant French utility’s ambition to lead a global revival in nuclear energy is running into difficulties as a controversial new boss takes overNEXT week Henri Proglio will become the boss of EDF Group, the state-controlled French firm which is the world’s biggest listed utility and operator of nuclear reactors. With its proud corporate culture, its devotion to long-term planning and its powerful unions (the Confederation Generale du Travail jointly runs the firm, in effect), EDF is sometimes described as a miniature version of France itself. Last year it began a vigorous campaign to build nuclear plants around the world. But to the dismay of advocates of a nuclear renaissance, the cost and complexity of embarking on several big projects at once is weighing on the firm, despite its size and government backing.EDF has long exported its nuclear-energy expertise, but earned only advisory fees for its efforts. It helped build China’s nuclear fleet, for example, for a few million euros. Now, as growth at home slows, it wants to make bigger profits by building and operating nuclear plants of its own abroad. After all, it is one of very few utilities that can afford to build several reactors by itself, without sharing the risk with partners or governments. And in an industry which atrophied after accidents at Three Mile Island in America and Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine, it has relatively extensive recent experience of building and operating modern nuclear plants. ...
Globalisation: Going global
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:49:44 -0000
Articles mentioning “globalisation” in The Economist“GLOBALISATION” is a relatively recent term. A search in the archives of this newspaper, perhaps the one most closely associated with globalisation, shows the word first used in 1961 in an article on the need for economic reform in Spain. Only in the 1980s did the term get the meaning it now has, when Theodore Levitt, a Harvard academic, used it to refer to the spread of corporations around the world. By the end of the decade, with the Berlin Wall in pieces, the number of articles (and letters to the editor) mentioning globalisation surged. Protests in Seattle in 1999 and in Genoa two years later encouraged more uses of the term, as did global trade negotiations in 2006. But with the current recession, the term is somewhat out of fashion. ...
Capital controls: Raining on India's parade
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:53:57 -0000
What India can learn from Brazil about controlling capital flowsIN INDIA, drought sometimes turns to deluge. This summer the country suffered its worst monsoon since 1972, which left half its rural districts parched, followed swiftly by floods that inundated two states. In recent years India’s economic policymakers have confronted a similar phenomenon. A once-sheltered economy is now increasingly open to foreign capital, which rained down on the country in 2007, only to evaporate last year. The rains are now returning: foreigners have invested $13.8 billion in India’s stockmarkets since April, having withdrawn $8.6 billion over the same period last year. The Sensex, India’s most widely watched stockmarket index, has surged by almost 100% since its March lows. On October 27th the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) held its key policy rate at 4.75%, even though it is anxious about rising inflation. It is wary of attracting even more money from foreign investors, who are looking for high returns in a world of meagre yields. India’s discomfort (see article) is widely shared. Less than a year ago policymakers in emerging economies fretted about capital flight. Their currencies and reserves were falling as foreigners tried to raise cash by ditching whatever assets they could sell. Several governments queued up for emergency loans from the IMF or a currency swap with the Federal Reserve. Now they are worried about capital flowing in the opposite direction. On October 20th Brazil imposed a 2% tax on foreign purchases of equities and debt. Investors are now looking around to see who might follow suit. ...
India and capital flows: A world apart
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:53:57 -0000
India is caught in two minds about financial globalisationTHE world is divided into two, according to Shachindra Nath, chief operating officer of Religare Enterprises, an Indian financial firm. On one side of the divide is a world with “cash but no opportunities”; on the other, a world with “no money, just opportunities.” In October Religare announced its ambition to shepherd money across this divide, by creating an “emerging-market investment bank”. The bank will be run from London by Martin Newson, a former head of global equities at Dresdner Kleinwort. Religare will start small, attaching itself to growing companies and expanding with them. As India’s companies go global, finding customers and buying companies abroad, they will want their banks to be global too, Mr Newson argues. His bank may still lack manpower (it has about 80 bankers) and experience (last year, it completed only two deals in its home market), but Mr Newson applauds India’s “get-up-and-go, ‘let’s attack’ attitude”. ...

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Asian Delegates Want ‘Political Accord’, For Now
Athar Parvaiz* COPENHAGEN, Dec 12 (IPS/TerraViva) - Asian delegations to the ongoing global negotiations on climate change are insisting that a political agreement must be reached to pave the way for a legally binding treaty in the near future.
Q&A : ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’
Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, proponent of a nuclear-free world MELBOURNE, Dec 9 (IPS) - As the threat of nuclear weapons looms large over the very existence of life on earth, Dr Sue Wareham, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons’ (ICAN) Australian board member, is calling for a speedy abolition of these weapons and the rejection of nuclear power as a solution to climate change.
POLITICS: Defiant China Asserts Role in Global Affairs
Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 12 (IPS) - The symbolism of Beijing dispatching its second top leader for celebrations with the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il almost at the same time as Washington was deciding to break a tradition by refusing the Dalai Lama a meeting with the U.S. President last week has not been lost on observers here — keen to glimpse ever more signs of China's rise.

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World Economic Forum on Africa 2009
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:09:00 -0000
The World Economic Forum announced today that Tanzania will host the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam from 5 to 7 May. "The World Economic Forum on Africa is an important opportunity to take the pulse each year of the most influential of Africa's stakeholders. While sub-Saharan Africa has been less impacted by the global recession than most other emerging regions, the economic crisis still represents both a challenge and an opportunity for the continent and its people, ...
'Summer Davos' in Asia 2009
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:49:00 -0000
Chinese prosperity can be a win-win for the world, according to business and government leaders during the "The Global Dimensions of China's Domestic Growth" session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions. Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, opened the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, laying out an ambitious agenda to reinvigorate China’s economy while meeting social goals. All stories from Thursday 10 September• Wen ...
Final Report from the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2009
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:42:00 -0000
Brazil to emerge from economic crisis sooner than most“Brazil is expected to emerge from the current global crisis before the average of the world economy,” said Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil, during a session on responses to global economic uncertainties at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro. Four social entrepreneurs have been recognized as Latin American Regional Social Entrepreneurs 2009 during the opening plenary session of ...
World Economic Forum on East Asia 2009
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:16:00 -0000
World Economic Forum on East Asia ends with shaping of G20 agendaEast Asia can drive the critical post-crisis structural reform of the global economy, business, government and civil society leaders participating in the 18th World Economic Forum on East Asia agreed at the closing session of the two-day meeting. Summary | Webcast | Twitter | Davos Debates I Photos Beyond crisis, East Asia’s middle-class consumers to drive new growthIn the medium to long term, the growing ranks of middle-class ...
Dubai 2009 - Summit on the Global Agenda
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:16:00 -0000
The second Summit on the Global Agenda ended today, with over 700 experts and thought leaders from business, academia, civil society and government putting forward their ideas. "This is really the blueprint of the future direction of the global well-being," said Summit Co-Chair Mohamed Alabbar in the closing plenary. The proposals debated by the Members of the 76 Global Agenda Councils on the most pressing issues facing the world will be considered at the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, ...

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The Enbridge Oil Sands Gamble
Patrick Daniel, the CEO of Enbridge Inc, is bullish about the future of unconventional oil from Canada’s massive tar sand deposits. His company not only operates North America’s longest crude oil and liquid pipelines, but transports 12 percent of the oil that the U.S. imports daily. Canada’s bitumen, or dirty crude, lies under a forest area the size of England and is arguably the world’s last remaining giant oil field.
Bhopal: Generations of Poison
On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl iso cyanate into its densely populated neighborhood, killing 8,000 people in the immediate aftermath. 25 years later, Dow Chemical (which purchased Union Carbide in 2001) still refuses to clean up the site. But a new generation of Bhopal survivors is taking on the fight.
US: Ex-UBS Banker Seeks Billions for Blowing Whistle
Bradley C. Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison for helping rich Americans dodge their taxes, his sentence reduced in turn for informing on Swiss banking giant UBS. Now, with the help of the National Whistleblower Center, he and his lawyers hope to use a new federal whistle-blower law to claim a multibillion-dollar reward from the American government.
CorpWatch Announces Version 2.0 of the CrocTail Corporate Subsidiaries Database and Open API
Developed with support from the Sunlight Foundation, CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand corporations publicly traded in the U.S. and their domestic and foreign subsidiaries. In this new version, users can click on different years and see how subsidiary relationships for a company have changed over time.
Black & Veatch's Tarakhil Power Plant: White Elephant in Kabul
In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, $285 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars have flowed into a Black & Veatch-built power plant outside Tarakhil village. But, far from the public relations coup the project was intended to supply, the plant has run into problems with planning, cost over-runs and alleged corruption.
US/ECUADOR: New nonprofit uses Web to pressure Chevron
Retired retail executive Richard Goldman was astonished when he heard about the $27 billion pollution lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador. SO he has created a nonprofit group, Ethos Alliance, that will use social-networking tools to spread word of the case and put pressure on Chevron.

Globalization

4. Flood Management (Part 2)
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3. Flood Management (Part 1)
B-SPAN Washington D.C.—On February 17, 2009, the World Bank presented Water Week 2009, an annual event featuring three days of panel discussions and lectures from various sectors. The discussions covered a variety of issues, from the impact of the financial crisis on water development to the affects of the food price crisis in low income countries. The event was a collaborative effort between the Water Anchor and the Water Sector Board. This years Water Week events enabled participants to exchange experiences and knowledge in helping the World Bank achieve solutions to clients most affected by the water crisis.
South Asian Bond Markets
B-SPAN On February 19, 2009 the World Banks South Asia Private Sector Development (SASPF) team featured the launch of the book, "South Asian Bond Markets." The book highlights regional characteristics of capital markets in South Asia, focusing on cases from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Ernesto May World Bank Sector Director for the SASPF Team chaired the event. Authors of the book Kiatchai Sophastienphong (World Bank Senior Financial Sector Specialist, SASPF) and Yibin Mu (IFC Senior Capital Market Specialist, Global Capital Markets Development) opened the presentation. Shidan Derakhshani (Director, Global Capital Markets Development) and Phillip Anderson (Senior Manager, World Bank Banking and Debt Management Group) lead a panel discussion. The event finished with remarks from Simon Bell, (SASPF Sector Manager.)

 

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A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All - Analyzes impacts of the globalized world with the focus on people. Report by The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, International Labour Organization, 2004.

A Student's Guide to Globalization - Web site managed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) serves as an informative and engaging space for those interested in learning more about changes in the international economy.
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A World Connected - Seeks to enhance the understanding by looking through the eyes of the people who are directly affected by a globalized world.

Anti-globalization Movement - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia article on the movement opposing globalization.

Canadian International Development Agency - News, background and resources about global issues and sustainable economic development, from a Canadian government-supported agency.

Capitalistocracy Book Café - Canadian Association for Research on Capitalistocracy - Facilitates critical research on corporate globalization and capitalism. Accepts freelance writers.
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Center for Globalization and Policy Research - UCLA - Established in response to the growing need for informed research and debate on all aspects of the topic, and in particular, on the many difficult policy questions that are being raised as a consecquence of it.
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Center for Research on Globalization - An independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of globalisation and disarming the new world order. Bilingual, English and French.

Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation - From the University of Warwick, UK. Research concentrates on questions such as social policy issues, international financial crises, multijurisdictional tax competition, development of global and regional governance and other civil society activities regarding the topics.
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Challenges of the Global Century - A report of the project on Globalization and National Security that displays the key features of the topic, as well as its challenges, impacts, and implications for the US policies. By Stephen J. Flanagan, Ellen L. Frost, and Richard L. Kugler. US National Defense University, 2001.

Commission on Globalisation - An initiative of State of the World Forum. Includes news and links to information and publications on the topic.

COMPA - An autonomous movement which spans the Americas aimed at constructing alternatives to neoliberal globalization, towards a new society. Multilingual site.

Corporate Watch - An organization that counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. Works to foster democratic control over corporations by building movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice. Articles, campaigns, links, news, and contact information.

Dialogue on Globalization - The web site of a program part of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's international work based on the premise that globalization can be shaped in a direction which aims at promoting peace, democracy, and social justice. Addresses the 'movers and shakers' both in developing countries and in the industrialized parts of the world, i.e. politicians, trade unionists, government officials, businesspeople, and journalists as well as representatives of NGOs, international organizations, and academia.
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Diplomats Without Borders - Non-profit association that engages private business in global affairs through regular meetings and dialogue between members. Meets in Geneva, Switzerland and Scottsdale, USA.
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Documents Relating to the Process of Globalization - Links to articles and essays from the web site of the Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.

Economic Liberalization and Integration - Global Policy Forum - News, articles and resources relating to the topic of liberal economic policies and their impact on the developing world in particular.

Essays on Globalization - Papers on the subject by Monthly Review.
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Ethical Globalization Initiative - Brings key stakeholders together in new alliances to integrate concepts of human rights, gender sensitivity and enhanced accountability into efforts to address global challenges and governance shortcomings.
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Fantasy World Order - Offers a quiz to help visitors determine their position in the globalization debate. Includes overall results.

500 Free Trade and Globalization - Looks at the reality of free trade and the impacts it has on everyone.
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Friends of the Earth: MAI - Commentary, analysis and links to websites about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.

GEP - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy - An British institute whose activities are structured around research programs covering the impacts on globalization on labour markets, economic policy, productivity and technology.

Global Balance - Provides an environment of information exchange, integration and support to assist NGOs and their projects to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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Global Education Network - An European network for learning in the field of global development issues and cooperation policy. Core activities are related to development of countries in Africa, Asia or South East Europe.

Global Envision - A web initiative with news and information on globalization, world business, poverty, global growth, and world trade. It aims to take the global free market system as a starting point for reducing world poverty.
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Global Exchange: Economic Alternatives - Advocates for democratic alternatives to top-down economic globalization.

500 Global Forum on Reinventing Government - Hosted by Korea Government. The leitmotiv of the meeting is the need for effective, accountable and transparent administrative and management structures, based on collaboration and partnership among the key players (governments, business, and civil society) of the state in the age of information technology, globalization, and decentralized governance. Schedule, sponsorship, and related information.

Global Issues Gateway - An educational website created by Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA, for those investigating issues arising from the rapid exchange of goods and ideas across increasingly porous geographic and cultural borders.
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Global Marshall Plan - An initiative for the implementation of a global eco-social development plan as a basis for a worldwide ecological and social market economy.
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Global Policy Forum - News, information, analysis and resources from an organization that monitors UN policy making on the matter and promotes accountability of global decisions.

Globalisation and Poverty Research Programme - A three-year program of research exploring the linkages between globalization processes and poverty. Funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), a United Kingdom government ministry.

Globalisation Guide - Eleven key questions on the subject with selected links to opinion leaders and thinkers.
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Globalization - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia article on globalization and its various aspects.

Globalization and Maritime Power - A study about the implications of globalization theory and facts in the design of national defense policies. Edited by Sam Tangredy, Institute for National Strategic Studies, US National Defense University, 2002.

Globalization and National Environmental Policy - Taking stock of changes in government interventions in response to globalization. Koningshof, Veldhoven, The Netherlands on September 22-24, 2003.

Globalization and the Postmodern Turn - A paper by Douglas Kellner, from the Graduate School of Education, UCLA, USA.

Globalization. Threat or Opportunity? - Brief subject to periodical reviews by International Monetary Fund Staff. It shows a set of key questions and answers on the subject such as: roles of countries and governments, growth, poverty and inequality, impacts on workers and many others.
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Globalization: Index - A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the examination of social, political, economic, and technological aspects of the topic, by The International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ICAAP).

HBS Working Knowledge: Globalization - Links to articles and comments related to the topic.

ICC World Business Organization - Comments, news and information resources from pro-globalization perspective, contending a global market economy will bring prosperity and other benefits to millions. Section of website of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Institute for International Economics - Globalization - Collection of papers on this topic by members the organization.
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Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition - An intellectual center of McMaster University in Canada, bringing together faculty, students and members of the broader community for discussion, debate and analysis of globalization and its effects.

International Forum on Globalization - Alliance formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization and its impact. Events, programs, news and analysis from an anti-globalization perspective.

International Social Observatory - Intends to contribute to integration of social, ethical and environmental dimensions in the globalization process.
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LifeWeb: The Biology of Globalization - Opinion article by Elisabet Sahtouris, it points out the threats of the economy of globalization against the basic principles by which healthy living systems are organized, 1998.

Millennium Development Goals - A free database that provides 60 indicators for 200 countries and 15 years from the Millenium Development Summit. Presents official UN global statistics in an easy-to-understand format aimed at citizens interested in the topic.
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OneWorld.net - Anti-globalization resources and opinions.
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Questioning Anti-Globalization NGO Claims and Policies - Critical assessment questioning the claims and policies of a Non Governmental Organization, the World Development Movement, and highlighting the positive effects of globalization, by Nikutai to Kageboushi.
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Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age - Examines the relationship of intentions and capabilities—more precisely, of openness and power—in the information age, taking China as the case in point. Postulates that although power remains important in world politics, globalization has transformed its character, correlates, and consequences. By David Gompert,McNair Paper 59, US National Defense University, May 1998.

Special Issue on Globalization -- Journal of World-Systems Research - Explores the topic in its economic, political, and cultural dimensions.

Special Reports - A portal to global politics, economics and ideas from Foreign Policy magazine. Site features reports, statistics and links.

Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations - Provides a wide range of information on topics related to development policy and globalization.
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The Global Century - Globalization and National Security - Examines impacts of globalization on world affairs and the task of forging responsive policies and strategies. Also, an in-depth analysis of global and regional trends. Edited by Richard L. Kugler and Ellen L. Frost, National Defense University.

The Global Workplace - Promotes awareness and encourages grassroots trade union activity on international issues.

The Globalisation Institute - Think tank advocating enterprise-based solutions to poverty.
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The Globalist - The daily online magazine on the global economy, politics and culture.
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The Globalization Website - Resources on various issues related to the issue from Emory University.

The Information Age - A book that undertakes the task of understanding the globalization of information and communication technologies. Based on historical fact, reasoned speculation about future trends, and informed analysis about the impacts that those trends might have on human affairs and the international system. Several authors. Edited by David S. Alberts and Daniel S. Papp for the US National Defense University, 2002.

The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - A selection of media reviews (key paragraphs) about Manuel Castells' trilogy.

Transnational Communities Programme - A research programme with the goal of looking into the human dimensions of globalization and aspects of emerging transnationalism. Commissioned by the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, based in the University of Oxford - Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
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500 TUC Globalisation - Raises key issues and highlights trade union responses to aspects of particular interest to working people. By the Trade Unions Congress, United Kingdom.

500 UNCTAD/UNDP Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development - UN project which seeks sustainable development and economic integration of developing countries into the global economy. Includes comprehensive list of institutions working on the topic.

World Economic Forum - The Davos meeting of political and business leaders aims to create the foremost global partnership of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of civil society to define and discuss the key issues on the global agenda.

World Exploitation - Provides topical related news and archive from a variety of sources on the Internet. Searchable news in 20 languages.
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WorldBank. Leading Research on Globalization - Provides access to recent presentations and some research on the subject. Some highlighted issues are: Making globalization work for all or Globalization, Growth and Poverty

Wuppertal Institute on Globalisation - A German research center that explores social and ecological impacts, and develops strategies to make globalization fair and sustainable.
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Yale Center for the Study of Globalization - The Center supports teaching and research on globalization, helps to enrich debate on the subject through workshops, conferences, and lectures, and responds quickly to important events by organizing timely public programs that bring together individuals from the University community with individuals active in the policy arena. From Yale University.
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