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Globalization
Globalization - Economic growth and development
Multinational companies and Globalization
World bank, International Monetary Fund role in Globalization
• To what extent does globalization leads to economic growth and development?
• What is economic growth and development?
• Does economic development leads to social development?
• The role of multinationals in globalization
• The role multilateral institutions on globalization.
• Economic growth refers to the increasing ability of a nation to produce more goods and services.
• Economic development implies that individuals of that nation will be better off and takes into account changes in economic and social structures that will reduce or eliminate poverty
Does Globalization Lead to Economic G & D?
• David Ricardo (1772 – 1823)
70% of people find a living as subsistence farmers
Little surplus and trade
Low level of savings
Little money raised from taxes
Little spending
Few opportunities and economic development
Limited support for local industries
Infrastructure, transport – systems and very basic
Limited industrial develop-ment
Limited agricultural investment
Limited social/health welfare spending
Limited supplies of local money to invest
Aid:
WB, NGOs, EMLDs
Overseas direct investment:
IMF, MNE/ TNC
Trade;
WTO, MNE/TNC
Vicious cycle
Every country seeks to break the vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle
• This can be done by1. Trade – comparative advantage
2. Aid
3. Overseas direct investment- MNC
Comparative Advantage
• A country is said to have a comparative advantage if it can produce the same amount of a particular good at a lower opportunity cost than some other country producing the same good.
Sources of Comparative advantage
• Climate• Labour• Technology• Natural resources• Education
Reason
• All countries have a comparative advantage• All countries gain from specializing in the
sector they have a comparative advantage in• International trade is good
Counter arguments
• International trade may harm new infant industries
• Dumped goods may harm local producers• Foreign based monopolies may be established
in the country and charge high prices
Fallacious Arguments
• To Keep the money at home• To create jobs and decrease unemployment
In short….
• International trade leads to specialization which leads to countries importing goods that they have less comparative advantage in therefore the GNP grows.
Globalization leads to Economic Growth
WTO in charge of trade agreement across the world.
Does economic growth lead to development?
• Development is the process of improving the quality of human lives by
1. Raising peoples’ living levels through relevant economic growth processes
2. Creating conditions conducive to the growth of peoples’ self esteem through the establishment of socio-political and economic systems
3. Increasing people’s freedom by enlarging the range of their choice variable
Todaro and Smith definitions
For Growth to lead to Development, Growth must be accompanied by
and take care of
Reduction in Unemployment
Reduction in Poverty
Reduction in Inequality
Environmental sustainability considerations
Cultural sustainability consideration
• Although globalization may lead to economic growth, it is how the growth is distributed amongst the population that determines the level of development. If it is not distributed well, then the gap between the rich and the poor widens.
The Role of Multinationals in Globalization
• Multi- nationals or Trans-national companies are (MNCs or TNCs) are business with headquarters in one country but with operations in many other countries.
Popular Examples
How big are they?
• Multinational corporations are increasingly seen as excessively big and powerful, and as having dramatically increased in size and power.
• Is it true?
International capital movement(income flows and balance of payments)
• Do they bring in much capital (saving)?• Do they improve the balance of payment?• Do they remit ‘excessive country’? (host country and home
country, symbiotic and parasitic relationships)
• Do the employ transfer pricing and disguise capital outflows?
• Do they establish any linkages to the local company?• Do they generate significant tax revenues?
Displacement of indigenous production
• Do the buy out existing import-competing industries? (asset stripping)
• Do the use their competitive advantages to drive local competitors out of business?
Extent of technology transfer
• Do they keep all R&D in home countries?
• Do they retain monopoly power over their technology?
Appropriateness of technology transfer
• Do they use only capital-intensive technologies?
Do they adapt technology to local factor endowments or leave it unchanged?
Pattern of consumption
• Do they encourage inappropriate patterns of consumption through elite orientation, advertising, and superior marketing techniques?
• Do they increase consumption of their products at the expense of other (perhaps more needed) goods?
Social structure and stratification
• Do the develop allied local groups through higher wage payments, hiring (displacing) the best of the local entrepreneurs and fostering elite loyalty and socialization through pressures for conformity?
• Do they foster alien values, images and lifestyles incompatible with local customs and beliefs?
Income distribution and dualistic development
• Do they contribute to the widening gap between rich and poor?
• Do they exacerbate urban bias and widen urban-rural differences?
The World Bank
• It is an institution that lends money to governments and government agencies for development projects.
• First formed to reconstruct Europe through the marshal-plan after the second world war through grants
• It is criticized for being responsible for rising poverty through its structural adjustment programs.
The structural adjustment program
• The common guiding principles are export led growth, privatization and the efficiency of the free market.
• Requires countries to devalue their currencies against the dollar, lift import and export restrictions.
• Encourage countries to focus on the production and export of primary commodities.
International Monetary Fund• An international financial body that was formed to give loans to
governments with interest.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by observing exchange rates and balance of payment, as well as offering financial and technical assistance
• Know to be mean to ELDCs because of high interest rate on loans
• Know to reshape the economies of beneficiary countries by promoting liberalization and privatization
• To the extent the governments are forced to privatize social bodies like high.
Conclusion
• From an economic point of view, globalization is good if managed properly.
References
• www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2005/RAND_CT244.pdf
• www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/index.htm