The idea of globalization is that people of the world become interconnected in all aspects of their lives, culturally, economically, politically, technically and environmentally. The first characteristic of globalization is to open borders between countries, especially in the area of trade, finance and tourism. In the result of the world opening borders, global trade replaces international trade. Money and finance have also changed as a result of globalization. From this perspective, globalization is a function of liberalization (Scholte, N.D: 454).Effects of globalization can be classified into several categories: economic, political, social, but the economic remains the most prominent (Bisley, 2007: 23).The most important function of globalization is the economist one because it helps in the integration of economies through increasing foreign trade, financial investment and migration between the states (Weinstein, 2005: 2). Globalization has made the relations between states stronger has increased between the countries, especially in times of natural crises, such as the 2004 tsunami flooding and earthquakes in Iran (Nayak, 2008:27-28).
Many people believe that globalization solves humanitarian problems, including poverty. However the anti-globalization view is that globalization has created disparities among people (the state of the world’s cities report 2006\2007, pp 46-49), as globalization has dramatically increased inequality between and within nations. Inequality has been soaring through the globalization period, within countries and across countries, and that is expected to continue (Weinstein, 2005:96).But in my view the solution to these problems consists in state intervention to create a balance in society by increasing taxes on the rich for the poor and supporting them, like the social system in Sweden.
One of the best examples of a very good result of globalization is the surprising success of South Korea in its economic development while in the North Korean model the failure of the policy of isolation and persecution has caused disaster, where people suffer from famine, while the permanent southern part of a great prosperous (Armstrong et al, 2006:200-213).
Globalization has made great achievements during the past period in establishing a liberal democratic government in a large number of countries in the world. For the first time in history, turning much of the country to the rule of law and democracy in such large numbers still have systems of the military dictatorship once and Latin America and Asia as well as communist regimes ended in the final Eastern Europe and ended the apartheid regime in South Africa all have a positive impact on the lives of people, especially poor in those countries (Scholte: 2005:35). It also made dramatic progress of human rights throughout the world and has become one of the most important issues in international relations.
Processes of globalization have affected individuals and groups throughout the world.The policy changed to more individual freedoms, especially in the economic field which has declined the role of government intervention in all fields (Kinnvall: 2006, P166). Expanded contacts, especially in information between the various countries, has even diverted the world to one small village, until it became the economic situation in the capital market in Asia affect the economic situation in Europe. It has had even more impact on individuals than before. The majority agrees on positive globalization and its effects on the progress of humanity, but some people opposed it, especially from the one hand, the preservation of cultural identity.
Contributed states and international organizations, especially the United Nations and its agencies during the past two decades in the fight against poverty and its negative effects have been successful so far emerged in its published statistics for example, between 1990-2002 approximately 1.1 billion people gained access to an improved source of safe drinking water, an increase in global coverage from 77% to 83 %( the state of the world’s cities report 2006\2007:74).
Another effective example is the reduction in the proportion of the population was living in the world on less than one dollar a day from 40.4% in 1981 to 21.1% in 2001(Chen & Ravallion,2004: 141-169). The following statistics can be verify by the achievements of economic globalization, exports have increased between the states from $629 billion (1960) to $10159 billion (2005), the external loans cross-border increased from $9 billion (1972) to $1465 billion (2000) and bond has increased issues from $1 billion (1960) to $1157(1999).
But the main event is a qualitative leap in foreign investment, which achieved positive results in developing countries. At all levels through the investment of manpower and resources first, and leading to the operation of the labor force, by increased foreign direct investment from $68 billion (1960) to $10672(2002) and many numbers Available (Scholte, N.D:454 from sources: BIS, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WTO).
A lot of giant companies have produced various kinds of goods achievements largely through increased foreign investment in the preparation of overseas branches, which also led to increased employment of a large number of countries and also to an increase in the consumption of the same goods produced in developed countries which achieved equality between the level of consumption different people. Those goods produced are now called global goods. Some products and companies have a long history of investing outside their countries of origin, for example, Campbell soup and Heinz began to household names locations across the world in the mid-1880s,ford company his first automobile, the model T,as a world car, Coca-Cola was bottled in 27 countries and sold in 78 by 1929(Scholte,N.D:458).
Of the most important benefits of globalization for all is the Internet, which turned from military use exclusive the US Department of Defense since its founding in 1969 to 1991 when they turned to use popular (Zurn, 2005:65-68).The Internet users in the world are growing quickly every year. The highest increase was in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, making it the intervention of the homes of the poor and to make its benefits for all. The Internet,phone and mobile are used for the communications and they are within the global communications revolution. They achieved great benefits for the poor people who use them in their daily lives including their economic and provided much of the work by working in the media or the ease of commercial transactions and deals. Facilitated by the use of the Internet and the ease of modern communication in education and facilitated to a large number also has easy access to work through the Internet, even in other countries, which facilitated
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