Consider this information and try and evaluate if globalisation is benefiting the whole world. Which areas are benefiting the most/least?

Consider this information and try and evaluate if globalisation is benefiting the whole world. Which areas are benefiting the most/least?


Globalisation is a long process, which started in the beginning of industrial revolution in 1760, which evolved into Capitalism and than extended to globalisation after 1989. This concept can be described as interdependence between countries. Trade, transport, cultural change increased and developed massively in last years. Countries that had made a huge progress during globalisation are followed by significant consequences such as economical, political, ecological, and cultural factors. Technological progress put all trade markets into different level, by connecting distance communities and making their economical activities easier. The players and in the same way those who benefits the most in this system are rich, multinational companies, corporations, governments of developing and developed countries. Any one who wasn’t scared of the risk and decided to go nationally (globally) in this time became very profitable. Creation of international trade and business, new labour markets, development, human rights, security, health system, education, infrastructure, multicultural societies, awareness of what is going on in other countries, ecological awareness are the positive results of globalisation. Although globalisation is generating more wealth in developing countries the effort putted into reducing the gap between them and world’s poorest countries is not meaningful. Usually globalisation works in interest of rich communities especially North and West areas where they dominate the trade. In case of supporting MEDC’s economy most of the poorest countries are used in providing them with raw materials and cheap labour. For example big investments in less developed countries are not contributing as much as they should to development of those communities. The lack of restrictions in poor countries gives them competitive advantage, for example: setting up plants that don’t have to take under consideration polluting environment, safety policies, or decreasing standards to minimum wages of local workers. Some of anti-globalisation campaigners are even talking about threat to culture’s traditions and distinction of local languages and national diversity. The huge inequality is seen between western countries, i.e. Africa where world leaders under United Nations Millennium Development Goals program try to fight extreme poverty and ensure economical stability. They are aiming to achieve that by 2015 especially targeting to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Promote gender equality and give power to women as a full participating citizens who contributes workforce to their countries. By this move social progress is going to be achieved by women having less children, being more educated and in the same way spend their incomes in different way than men (health, nutrition in their families, education). This action was seen in so called North and West countries when women fought for their independence. This brought huge improvement in different areas of the economy. By ensuring health policies Millennium Development program not only wants to improve general health but also wants to focus on maternal health and child mortality. One of the main goals is to introduce universal primary education. This is the factor that is going to affect all younger population, educating them with all the necessary knowledge to provide them with opportunities for future. Millennium Goals seems to be perfect and most of people believe in their achieving, but globalisation is the system where there are people who gain a lot and people who can gain just little. This tells us that without those who benefit the least there won’t be those who are winning the fortune. Those are rules which are very hard to play and are unfair but, even the huge gap between the richest and the poorest we should remember about the world middle class which was spotted around 1990’s. After big success of the multinational corporations many people found well paid job or even opened their small businesses that started to live on their own in prosperity.