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There are two types of countries developing countries and the ones who are already developed. Globalization creates more jobs to developing countries but the effect of this is people in developed countries lose jobs. When this occurs it is called outsourcing. The reason for countries doing this is money. Not only do people lose jobs but also forget about their language they grew up speaking. Now that their is globalization people are able to travel and can completely forget about there tradition and even the language they speak. An estimate of 7000 languages are spoken all over the world, but by the end of this century only 3500 are expected to still exist.

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Communication is used all over the world. Communication skills development has always been important to be successful in business. Now people can afford to communicate well within their own cultures. This is useful and good because now people can speak to relatives who live in other countries. Understanding the good of globalization on each of these factors can help anyone to select the most useful communication skills development programs for yourself. Even take classes in other countries to learn their culture.

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Communication skills development has always been an important factor of success in business, but the influence of globalization and cross-cultural interaction in recent decades has impacted the types of communication skills needed in dramatic ways. No longer can entrepreneurs afford to simply communicate well within their own homogenous cultures. Today, people need to understand the dynamics of long-distance collaboration, the impact of culture on manners of speaking and body language, and how to use technology to communicate with people on the other side of the globe. Understanding the impact of globalization on each of these factors can help you to select the most useful communication skills development programs for yourself or your employees.

Virtual Interactions

Globalization has introduced virtual communication and collaboration as a major part of workplace dynamics. Modern entrepreneurs need to understand the strengths and limitations of different communications media, and how to use each medium to maximum effect. For example, communicating via email to distant team members requires a certain etiquette and nuance not necessarily required in face-to-face interactions. Holding virtual meetings requires a similar change in approach, and people who are unaccustomed to communicating in groups in virtual settings can find themselves lost, confused or unable to share their input. When choosing a communication skills training program, look for courses that address the challenges of virtual interactions.

Cultural Awareness in Speech

The need for cultural awareness is a major impact of globalization on the required skillset of effective communicators, resulting in the evolution of communication skills development programs. Modern entrepreneurs and employees need the ability to catch subtle nuances of people's manner of speech when communicating across cultures. Even when two people are speaking the same language, cultural differences can affect vocabulary, colloquial expressions, voice tone and taboo topics. In Japanese business culture, for example, it can be considered rude to ask personal questions in an initial business meeting. In the U.S., on the other hand, asking personal questions and sharing personal information can display warmth and openness. American and Japanese businesspeople who understand this about each other can communicate in ways that resonate more effectively with each other.

Cultural Awareness in Body Language

Awareness of cultural differences in body language can be just as important as the nuances of speech. Modern training programs teach students to understand acceptable speaking distances, conflict styles, eye contact and posture in different cultures, accepting that the physical expressions of their own culture are not universally accepted. Look for training programs that address these differences to prepare you for face-to-face meetings with foreign suppliers, customers or team members.

Time Differences

The advent of global collaboration introduces another new dynamic to communication skills -- the need to communicate and share information with people across several time zones. When people collaborate with others on the other side of the globe, their counterparts are usually at home asleep while they themselves are at work. Today's communication skills development programs should address the nuances of overcoming this challenge by teaching people to understand the information needs of their colleagues, according to the communication styles of different countries or cultures. Being able to effectively share information between shifts can make or break the productivity of a geographically dispersed team, making this an important issue for many companies.

About the Author

David Ingram has written for multiple publications since 2009, including "The Houston Chronicle" and online at Business.com. As a small-business owner, Ingram regularly confronts modern issues in management, marketing, finance and business law. He has earned a Bachelor of Arts in management from Walsh University.

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The Impact of Globalization on Communication Skills Development

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Communication skills development has always been an important factor of success in business, but the influence of globalization and cross-cultural interaction in recent decades has impacted the types of communication skills needed in dramatic ways. No longer can entrepreneurs afford to simply communicate well within their own homogenous cultures.

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In Southern Asia, the number of people living in poverty has risen let alone the high growth rates experienced by many of the region’s countries. Some world regions have become poorer. The poorest country in 2011 was poorer than the poorest country in 1980. From studying we have found that not all the developing countries have benefited from globalization. Many countries have not gotten better in the past 20 years. In 2006, GDP in 42 world countries did not exceed USD 875 per capita.

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Does globalization promote development? If you scratch beneath the surface, the answer of OECD researchers to this crucial question in times of financial collapse and its atrocious consequences for the vulnerable sections of people around the world is: globalization helps the rich get richer and the poor poorer.

"The poorest country in 2011 was poorer than the poorest country in 1980. And much of humankind continues to live on less than USD 1 a day," says a new study by the 34-nation bloc of mainly industrialized and some emerging countries, which devotes some 20 out of 157 pages to analyze whether globalization promotes development, and sums up:

"Globalization ﬁrst promoted the development of industrialized countries, then, in the past 20 years, that of emerging countries. While some developing countries are following in their footsteps, others have become marginalized or weakened by opening to international markets. Extreme global poverty has diminished, but is still ingrained in certain regions. In many countries, inequalities have deepened. Globalization can only promote development if certain political conditions are combined."

The study titled 'Economic Globalization: Origins and Consequences' is part of a series of 'OECD Insights' commissioned by the Public Affairs and Communications Directorate of Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. It is authored by Jean-Yves Huwart and Loïc Verdier. They tell two stories to underline the gist of their findings highlighting the two faces of globalization:

"Twelve years ago, professional manicurist Edmila Silva and her partner Neno left their rural province in northeast Brazil to settle in the suburbs of São Paulo. Thanks to two decades of national economic stability and constant growth, the region experienced a spectacular drop in unemployment over the past 10 years.

This success is partly due to the Brazilian economy's integration into international markets: in 20 years, the share of international trade in Brazil's growth has doubled. This led to a range of new jobs and to many families experiencing higher purchasing power. 'We have many, many more opportunities than before', says the young manicurist. Today, she drives a small new car, owns a mobile phone and has health insurance. Two years ago, she opened a bank account and took out a consumer loan. She is thinking of going back to school to become a nurse or chiropodist. 'I am very independent now', she says. 'I have more self-confidence. The future is smiling on us.'

At the same moment, in Sikasso, 250 km from Mali's capital Bamako, farmer Yacouba Traoré is complaining about the Malian textile development company - the obligatory intermediary between Malian cotton producers and international markets. 'Last year, they paid me 210 CFA francs per kilo of cotton', said this father of six. 'This year, only 150 CFA francs.'

Despite its high quality, Malian cotton can't compete with producers from the north, who supply vast quantities and enjoy high living standards thanks to subsidies. To make things worse, food prices soared this year: imported rice, which is less expensive than local rice, has shot up from 250 to 350 CFA francs in just a few months. 'I earn less and less even though the cost of living is higher and higher! Barring a miracle, I'm sure I won't be able to send my two youngest children to school next year'."
Two Faces of Globalization
These two faces of globalization show on the one hand an opening to trade that brings progress and development. On the other, weakened populations are trapped in a spiral of poverty. "There are two ways to understand the impact of globalization on development: study the overall situation of countries and study the development of populations inside the countries," the researchers explain.

But they add rather frankly: "Certainly, a country's development level plays a role in the development of its population, but this link isn't automatic. Thanks to globalization, developing countries are indeed catching up on affluent countries - but the gulf between the richest and the poorest fringes of the world population seems to have widened."

And yet, says the study, in the last 20 years, rapid globalization has occurred alongside a worldwide decrease in extreme poverty. Since 1990, the number of people surviving on under USD 1 a day has dropped by 25 percent - that's 500 million people. From 1990 to today, the share of the world population living in extreme poverty has dropped from 31 percent to 19 percent, it adds.

But these numbers owe a lot to China's good results. In the past 15 years, China's per capita income grew faster than in most developing countries. In 1981, 835 million Chinese lived on less than USD 1.25 a day, compared with "only" 208 million today. While the "world's factory" is going at full capacity, says the study, "it does not necessarily make its neighbors very happy . . . (because) not only is poverty not decreasing in other countries and regions around the world, it's sometimes increasing."
More Poor People
A case in point is southern Asia, where the number of people living in poverty has risen despite the high growth rates experienced by many of the region's countries. India's indigent population, for example, has soared to 36 million in the same 15-year period. As a share of total population, though, poverty has actually decreased from 58 percent to 42 percent. "But while millions of Indians now subsist on more than USD 1.25 a day, 75% still live on less than USD 2 a day," avers the study.

Another case in point is sub-Saharan Africa, which is still lagging behind in terms of development. A full 50 percent of its population has been living in poverty for the past 30 years, notes the OECD study. What is more, two-thirds of the poorest people on earth live in Africa. "It wasn't always this way. In 1970, 11 percent of the world's poorest lived in Africa, compared with 76% in Asia. The ratio has completely reversed in under 30 years," the researchers find.

They continue: "Some world regions have become poorer. Comparatively speaking, the poorest country in 2011 was poorer than the poorest country in 1980. And much of humankind continues to live on less than USD 1 a day."

The study further admits that not all the developing countries have benefited from globalization. Many countries have stagnated in the past 20 years. In 2006, GDP in 42 world countries did not exceed USD 875 per capita.

Among these were 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Madagascar, the Republic of Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo), 4 in Latin America (Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua) and 3 in Asia (Myanmar, Laos, Viet Nam - although the latter just joined the intermediate country classification in 2010). Among the 49 least advanced countries, according to the United Nations definition, were Bangladesh, Yemen and Haiti.
-Jayantha Dhanapala is a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka and a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations who is currently President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. (This article was provided by IDN-InDepthNews -www.indepthnews.info.)

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Globalization Makes Poor More Vulnerable - Palestine Chronicle

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Does globalization promote development? If you scratch beneath the surface, the answer of OECD researchers to this crucial question in times of financial collapse and its atrocious consequences for the vulnerable sections of people around the world is: globalization helps the rich get richer and the poor poorer.

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Globalization is harming nature as we know. The rain-forest is a beautiful place but is being destroyed by agricultural products. From this it is effecting the ecosystem, animals, and the beauty of nature. Deforestation is occurring. People are destroying nature to build corporations such as McDonald's. Deforestation not only harms animals but what is being put in place is harming us humans. McDonald's is filled with fattening food that causing obesity. 65% of people live in countries where overweight kills more than underweight. Why are we destroying life and nature just to destroy ourselves as well.

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Niklas Potrafke found out how women fare by comparing globalization trends
Finding out the progress of globalization for almost one hundred developing countries at ten year period starting in 1970," Ursprung and Potrafke stated, "we find that economic and social globalization exert a decidedly positive influence on the social institutions that reduce female subjugation and promote gender equality." Globalization tends to free women from traditional social and political orders being said globalization has helped women to become more equal with men.

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How important is the open exchange of goods to the spreading of prosperity? This important: Since 1950, world trade in goods has expanded from $600 billion (in 2015 dollars) to $18.9 trillion in 2013. That's a more than 30-fold increase, during a period in which global population grew less than three-fold.

This massive increase in trade was kicked off in 1948 by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which began the liberalization process of lowering tariff and non-tariff barriers. As a result, autarkic national economies became more integrated and intertwined with one another. The World Bank reports that openness to trade-the ratio of a country's trade (exports plus imports) to its gross domestic product (GDP)-has more than doubled on average since 1950.

Immigration has also contributed significantly to economic growth and higher wages. Today some 200 million people, about 3 percent of the world's population, live outside their countries of birth. According to the Partnership for a New American Economy, 28 percent of all U.S. companies started in 2011 had immigrant founders-despite immigrants comprising roughly 13 percent of the population. In addition, some 40 percent of Fortune 500 firms were founded by immigrants or their children.

All of this open movement of people and stuff across borders pays off in many measurable ways, some obvious, some more surprising.
Longer, Healthier Lives
A 2010 study in World Development, titled "Good For Living? On the Relationship between Globalization and Life Expectancy," looked at data from 92 countries and found that economic globalization significantly boosts life expectancy, especially in developing countries. The two Swedish economists behind the study, Andreas Bergh and Therese Nilsson, noted that as Uganda's economic globalization index rose from 22 to 46 points (almost two standard deviations) over the 1970-2005 period, average life expectancy increased by two to three years.

Similarly, a 2014 conference paper titled "The long-run relationship between trade and population health: evidence from five decades," by Helmut Schmidt University economist Dierk Herzer, concluded, after examining the relationship between economic openness and population health for 74 countries between 1960 and 2010, that "international trade in general has a robust positive long-run effect on health, as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality."
Women's Liberation
A 2012 working paper by University of Konstantz economist Heinrich Ursprung and University of Munich economist Niklas Potrafke analyzed how women fare by comparing globalization trends with changes in the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), which was developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). SIGI takes several aspects of gender relations into account, including family law codes, civil liberties, physical integrity, son preference, and ownership rights. It's an index of deprivation that captures causes of gender inequality rather than measuring outcomes.

"Observing the progress of globalization for almost one hundred developing countries at ten year intervals starting in 1970," Ursprung and Potrafke concluded, "we find that economic and social globalization exert a decidedly positive influence on the social institutions that reduce female subjugation and promote gender equality." They further noted that since globalization tends to liberate women from traditional social and political orders, "social globalization is demonized, by the established local ruling class, and by western apologists who, for reasons of ideological objections to markets, join in opposing globalization."
Less Child Labor
A 2005 World Development study, "Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor," by Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics and Indra de Soysa of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, looked at the effects of trade openness and globalization on child labor in poor countries. Their analysis refuted the claims made by anti-globalization proponents that free trade induces a "race to the bottom," encouraging the exploitation of children as cheap laborers. Instead the researchers found that the more open a country is to international trade and foreign investment, the lower the incidence of exploitation. "Globalization is associated with less, not more, child labor," they concluded.
Faster Economic Growth
A 2008 World Bank study, "Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence," by the Stanford University economists Romain Wacziarg and Karen Horn Welch, found that trade openness and liberalization significantly boost a country's rate of economic growth.

The authors noted that in 1960, just 22 percent of countries representing 21 percent of the global population had open trade policies. This rose to 73 percent of countries representing 46 percent of world population by the year 2000. The study compared growth rates of countries before and after trade liberalization, finding that "over the 1950-98 period, countries that liberalized their trade regimes experienced average annual growth rates that were about 1.5 percentage points higher than before liberalization" and that "investment rates by rose 1.5-2.0 percentage points."
Higher Incomes
Trade openness boosts economic growth, but how does it affect per-capita incomes? A 2009 Rutgers University-Newark working paper, "Trade Openness and Income-a Re-examination," by economists Vlad Manole and Mariana Spatareanu, calculated the trade restrictiveness indices for 131 developed and developing countries between 1990 and 2004. Its conclusion: A "lower level of trade protection is associated with higher per-capita income."
Less Poverty

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How important is the open exchange of goods to the spreading of prosperity? This important: Since 1950, world trade in goods has expanded from $600 billion (in 2015 dollars) to $18.9 trillion in 2013. That's a more than 30-fold increase, during a period in which global population grew less than three-fold.

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Over the years globalization has turned the world into one from trade then how it once was, isolated economies. The more trade that we do the more wealthier we become, and global trade across the world has created more wealth than ever before in human history. This helped lift more people out of mere subsistence than ever before. For the poorest countries globalization brings the investment that creates jobs. These jobs represent a step up for people in poor countries because they usually pay more than do the more traditional jobs available there.

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There is talk of food miles, of buying locally, and of self-sufficiency, as if these were virtues. The good thing (my number nine) is globalization which gives us all access to each other's special skills and products.
9. Globalization
Over the course of decades globalization is turning the world into an integrated economy instead of what it has been for most of its history, a series of relatively isolated economies. The more trading that takes place, the more wealth is created, and global trade across international frontiers has created more wealth than ever before in human history, and had helped lift more people out of mere subsistence than ever before.

To poorer countries globalization brings the chance to sell their relatively low cost labour onto world markets. It brings the investment that creates jobs, and although those jobs pay less than their counterparts in rich economies, they represent a step up for people in recipient countries because they usually pay more than do the more traditional jobs available there.

To people in richer countries globalization brings lower cost goods from abroad, which leaves them with spending power to spare and a higher standard of living. It also brings opportunities for productive investment in high growth industries in developing countries.

Those adversely affected by the global exchanges are the people in rich countries whose output is now undercut by the cheaper alternatives from abroad. They often need to find new jobs or to be retrained to do work that adds higher value. The extra wealth generated by globalization has brought an increase in service sector employment, which provides many of the new jobs needed.

Competition from abroad forces firms to become more efficient and to use resources more efficiently. Often they choose to go upmarket, seeking higher added value products that face less competition from relatively unskilled labour. Thus firms which once sold cheap textiles move into fashion and design, and find customers among the rising middle classes in developing countries.

The integration of the world economy has brought with it an interdependence. As countries co-operate in trade with each other, they get to know each other and grow into the habit of resolving disputes by negotiation and agreement instead of by armed conflict. The 19th Century French economist Frederic Bastiat expressed this pithily: "Where goods do not cross frontiers, armies will."

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These  sources argue that globalization has made the world worse.

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These sources argue that globalization has made the world better.