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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION
2
OPPORTUNITIES
2
EFFECTS ON POVERTY
2
THRESHOLD EFFECTS
3
CHANNELS AND LINKAGES
3
OPENNESS
3
GROWTH EFFECT
4
DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
4
TRANSPARENCY
4
AGRICULTURE
5
INEQUALITY AND POVERTY AFFECTED BY GLOBALIZATION
5
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
5
LABOR AND CAPITAL
5
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
6
ECONOMIC SHOCK
6
POOR GLOBALIZATION
7
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
7
CHALLENGES
8
GROWTH
8
1.
IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1.1.
OPPORTUNITIES
The globalization process offers a tremendous opportunity for mankind to lead to a major
worldwide reduction in poverty (United Nations, 2001). While there is significant potential for
reducing poverty, the magnitude will depend, in particular, on the growth trend adopted by the
developed as well as developing countries. A common question is whether the real distribution of
income is equitable and if the poor gain from globalization in less than proportion and in some
conditions may actually be affected. With the weak developed economies and the poor in the
world, the threats and costs of globalization may be important. In periods of frequent global
economic crisis, the drawback to globalisation. In the developed world over and sometimes
overwhelmingly, the costs of recurring crises linked to the globalization of the economy and the
finances are most vulnerable. Despite prosperous times, however, the advantages of globalization
are not universal to the global community (National Geographic, 2019).
1.2.
EFFECTS ON POVERTY
Recent studies that show minimal, if not missing convergence between engaging national
and regional economies as globalization rises. This illustrates the fear that in some circumstances
poverty has been ignored, or hurt by globalization. The observed trend towards greater disparity
in the distribution of world incomes between countries and regions (where the population does not
calculate them) and in many of the developing countries has a strong impact on the circumstances
affecting the poor in the world because disparity acts as a conduit from growth to poverty. In
particular, growth and thus poverty alleviation can in the future have an effect on inequalities
(Nicolas, 2019).
The most recent studies show a decrease in poverty from 40 percent in 1980 to 8 percent
in 2020 in the population of developing countries that live under 1 dollars a day. This development
was, however, mainly accomplished by substantial poverty reduction in China (United Nations,
2001). In comparison, the total number of people living under 2 dollars a day has dropped only in
Asia and risen elsewhere and has also increased worldwide (Nicolas, 2019).
Whereas any increase of poverty and income disparity so far noticed can not be attributed
to the impact of “globalisation” alone or even primarily, even the most positive estimates can not
ignore the worries posed that the process of globalization has at least had some negative effects on
deprivation and distribution of revenue. Such issues have created a worldwide heated debate and
a large anti-globalization movement (National Geographic, 2019).
1.3.
THRESHOLD EFFECTS
The relationship of globalization and deprivation with multifaceted networks is dynamic
and heterogeneous. Globalization-poverty relations in several ways, including some threshold
effects, are most possibly non-linear. It may be futile to attempt to define impacts of globalization
on poverty as a factor (Alice, n.d.). In addition, any sub-group of links embedded in a global (open)
connection can be controversial. In addition to the "crowding" impact of globalisation, which are
directly mediated by economic development, on poverty, it is also understood that the cycle of
globalization or integration occurring on various other networks produces winners or losers that
cause vertical or horizontal inequalities (Nicolas, 2019). Such channels include relative and value
adjustment, the movement of factor, the essence of technological changes and diffusion, the effect
of globalisation, global knowledge flows and global disinflation on the volatility and vulnerability
(Julia, 2020).
2.
CHANNELS AND LINKAGES
2.1.
OPENNESS
Globally, open policy has been encouraged to accelerate development by trade and
investment structures and the liberalization of capital movements. The cause of openness and
growth is still being debated and the positive correlation between openness and development is
either inherently or universally identified. (Matt, n.d.).
2.2.
GROWTH EFFECT
There are two theoretical branches of income and wealth levels inequality, due to the
"growth" impact of the trigger chain of openness to poverty. Traditionally, higher net savings,
accumulation of capital and the presence of indivisible wealth-reward effects underline the growthenhancing effect of inequality. Recent political economic work compares growing inequity with
decreased development on a wide range of sub-channels, for example, improductive rentesearching activities that reduce property protection, the spread of policy-making and social turmoil
leading to increased volatility and lower investment. (Julia, 2020).
2.3.
DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
The advocates of the new approach to political economics claim that the trends of
development that generate more disparities in income distribution would in turn contribute to lower
potential forms of development. It will also have an effect on the poverty reduction potential
(United Nations, 2001). The idea is that successful poverty alleviation is not only dependent on
favorable GDP growth per capita, but also improvements in income inequality. Inequality is an
obstacle to poverty reduction because poverty elasticity in terms of development has declined with
inequality (Julia, 2020). As the trend of economic growth and development will greatly affect the
future distribution of income and the poverty profile of a country rather than the growth rate in
itself, a quest for weak growth or distribution is important (Syed, 2018).
2.4.
TRANSPARENCY
In fact, transparency is a prerequisite for successful development in an interdependent
environment. All countries must experience structural changes during the development process.
The biggest challenge at the early stage of development as the accumulated growth process starts
is how to produce the capital required to achieve the starting point. A nation is primarily
agricultural in the early days of development and its economy is largely closed. (Carol, 2004).
2.5.
AGRICULTURE
In order to increase productivity and capacity to contribute to the rest of the economy, and
ultimately net surplus to fund the growing industrialisation process, agriculture must continue to
have a strong resource flow through its component soiling, materials, science, and credit combined
with appropriate institutions and price policy. Experience in East Asia found that a structural
transition that has been systematically applied leads to an unequal and transparent development
cycle. (Carol, 2004).
3.
INEQUALITY AND POVERTY AFFECTED BY GLOBALIZATION
3.1.
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
In SamuelsonStolper's theorem of international trade theory is generally recognized as the
income distribution effects caused by relative commodity price increase in the process of trade
opening. As a matter of fact the increases in absolute and relative prices of wage products are not
only likely to be winners, losers (especially the poor living in cities or rural areas). Although in
many developed countries the wage gaps between skilled and skilled labor have not declined,
especially in Latin America and Africa, as demand for skilled work increased, the incidence of
income inequality is supposed to have been reduced. It can be explained by several factors such
as: (i) a strongly prejudicial value of emerging technologies for skilled and well-educated labor;
and (ii) the entry of Asian economies with significant reserves of untrained labour, such as China
and India, into the world markets (Matt, n.d.).
3.2.
LABOR AND CAPITAL
The increasingly diversified degree of labor and capital today is another powerful vector
for winners and losers as a result of globalization. There is, in particular, a significant gap in crossborder mobility between skilled and unskilled jobs. As a result, salary equalization is less likely to
occur as a result of labor migration. Factor migration is more broadly characterized by: (i) capital
and trained labor do not move to the developing world more than to the poor; (ii) skilled workers
are likely to migrate to developed countries from developing countries and (iii) liberalization of
capital markets leads to a flight of capital to developed countries, especially with globalisation,
developed countries are disproportionate. (National Geographic, 2019).
While labor mobility is strictly restricted and regulated for unskilled labor, illegitimate
labor mobility has been enabled by the rising free movement of cross-border capital and power of
multinational corporations as a result of changes in relative labor costs. For fear of banning MNCs,
developed world governments are less likely to implement human rights laws and strengthen them.
The mobility factor difference seen in the recent decades thus could have a profound impact on
the distribution of usable incomes between labor and capital (National Geographic, 2019).
3.3.
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
The nature of technological development and the technological diffusion process may also
have a negative effect on the distribution of wealth and poverty. In response to circumstances
characteristic of their own wealth, technological progress comes primarily from R&D in
developing countries. The technological change is therefore more likely, in developed and
developing countries, to save labor and energy and raise inequality by establishing a wider wage
gap. In comparison to the high degree of complementarity between skilled workers and capital,
the replacement between skilled workers is weak. In addition, there is no universal and random
dissemination of technology and exposure to new technologies. As a result, over time productivity
inequalities will increase globally, increasing income inequality. In particular, globalization has
accelerated the privatization process, which may hamper and often cost developing nations' access
to advanced technology. Potential example may be agricultural technology, in comparison to the
previous Green Revolution in a public domain, where the latest biotechnological revolution is
created by large private corporations (Matt, n.d.).
3.4.
ECONOMIC SHOCK
Greater transparency is also correlated with rising uncertainty and economic shocks that
are greatly worsening deprivation and income inequality, at least temporarily, among vulnerable
and affluent households. There is some evidence that the poor are harmed rather than benefit from
expansionary cycles during contraction. In the Asian financial crisis, for instance, poor households
in urban areas are hit hardest and they lack security grids (Branab, 2004).
The poor are still not well positioned to leverage new opportunities created by the massive
increase in the global data flow. Eventually, while global disinflation has provided macroeconomic
and monetary stability advantages, macroeconomic and monetary stability has been achieved at
the cost of some additional development. The prevailing state of global fiscal restraint may have
weakened governments' capacity to raise revenue for re-dispartitionary purposes (Branab, 2004).
4.
POOR GLOBALIZATION
4.1.
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
The trend of income gaps between countries that have been identified threatens to
jeopardize the feasibility of the convergence dissertation. However, the mere implementation of
free trade and investment schemes does not ensure entry of developed countries to the
Convergence Community. Many developing countries which have opened up their economies
since the 1980s fell behind not only comparatively but also entirely in terms of sales levels and
economic growth. Depending on the initial terms of show and the effective implementation of
policies at national and international levels, global market forces may create a virtuous circle or a
vicious circle in the integration process. (Syed, 2018).
In a strategic position on globalisation, the speed and sequence of liberalization steps can
not be clearly defined. It is just a matter of models or integration processes. The above-mentioned
policies for national growth should be strategically developed, in view of the highly skewed reality
of the on-going globalization.
4.2.
CHALLENGES
When patterns are observed in rising per capita income disparities between and in many
countries, developed countries need to implement strategic steps to safeguard themselves, with a
long-term approach to enhancing competitive benefits through higher value-added activities to
benefit from globalization's dynamic forces. In order to thrive, the governments of developing
countries need to systematically construct structural, inclusive capacities to address major
globalization challenges (Syed, 2018).
4.3.
GROWTH
The policymakers need, not only for the benefit of, but also to combat the detrimental
effects of the unstoppable forces of globalisation, to plan and execute an ambitious growth
strategy. Governments are not required to engage actively in liberalizing trade and capital
movements and the restructuring of their economies while passively waiting for the impact of the
Washington Consensus and market forces for globalization to drive them down the speedy path of
growth. Governments would instead follow ambitious independence and positive domestic
development policies. Those who argue that we need to have fairer ways and procedures for
globalization in the first place will face up to the need for a much better understanding of the idea
of "poor globalisation" than we currently have in today 's globalization forces (Syed, 2018).
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