Cuba Looks at Globalization

Experts from 50 countries attend the International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems.
The US recession's impact on economies of the Latin American and Caribbean countries

Some 1,000 experts from 50 countries are to attend in this capital Monday the International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems, amid a panorama of economic uncertainty and high oil prices.

A source from the organizing committee has confirmed the presence in the event of Bolivia's President Evo Morales and Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez, Bishop Chancellor at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican.

National Association of Economists of Cuba (ANEC) vice president Esther Aguilera also told Prensa Latina that among figures will be 1999 and 2007 Nobel prizewinners in Economy Robert Mundell and Eric Maskin, respectively.

Also included are representatives from 20 international and regional organizations among them UNCTAD, WTO, IMF, ALADI, SELA and ECLAC.

The US recession's impact on economies of the Latin American and Caribbean countries, and the international situation due to the explosion of the private debt and the real estate sector are among the lectures of the meeting.

After the official opening of the event today, there will be speeches by Orlando Caputo Leiva, from the Studies Center on Transnationalization, Economy and Society of Chile, and Osvaldo Martinez, director of the World Economy Research Center, among other experts.

The ANEC vice president stated that Fidel Castro was the inspirer of this kind of meeting, and recalled how in the 1998 event she stated the need to debate the most urgent problems of the international economy.

*From TRABAJADORES:CU._

the reality of the globalization

The globalization is a fundamentally economic process that consists of the increasing integration of the different national economies of the only world market economy.


The globalization is related as product of the public international organizations F. M I. nevertheless, the globalization is an autonomous process and a spontaneous order foreign to the directionof such public organisms and that depends rather on the economic growth, the technological advance and the conectividad
humanizes (transport and telecommunications




EXAMPLE OF GLOBALIZATION

A girl of San Francisco, in The United States, did the experiment of emptying her wardrobe and looking attentivly at the origin of the articles
Vietnam, India, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand, Israel, El Salvador, The Philippines and Turkey were some of the countries that she found as origen of her wardrove.


A marine German biologist proposed a crab of Chinese origin. The crab came secretly in a container it does 50 years to Europe, it escaped in Hamburg and was reproduce fervently until the river dominated Elba and to spread over the rest of the world

Taken of the plastic arts and the images of the globalization.*********

Yharis' viewpoint about globalization._

Globalization is a process which pretends to unify the world in different aspects (industrial, financial, economic, political, informatical, ecological, cultural, social, technical, ethical, ...).

Through this process each country all over the world is increasing and is bettering human beings but most of the time who has the power (in this case rich countries) is the winner that is why those countries are already getting into globalization easier and faster than poor countries, as we are.

So, me as a person who lives in a poor country, think that we can not put our hands on our face and let the time run away because we are already involved and we have to be clear about what can help us and what can kill us. Besides, we have to know that globalization as everything, has advantages and disadvantages.

Dominican Republic is bettering about technology, but it has also been struck by the emigration refering to the Haitians. Besides, as an agricultural country, we have to guarantee our quality trying our own products but we do not do it!, always we want to try new goods from foreign countries but what about our growth? It is easier to another country to sell their products, but difficult for us because we do not have the superpower that we need to do it. I am not antiglobalizationist but I think that the Dominican Republic has to be half and half on the globalization and antiglobalization, without allowing that others do what they want.

Adam Smith._

Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Adam Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.
Smith studied moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University. After graduating he delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, and during this time wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In his later life he took a tutoring position which allowed him to travel throughout Europe where he met other intellectual leaders of his day. Smith returned home and spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations (mainly from his lecture notes) which was published in 1776. He died in 1790.



*Taken from Internet._

The North American Free Trade Agreement ''NAFTA''._

The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA (pronounced /næf.tʌ/, naf-tu) (Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte [TLCAN], French: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain [ALENA]) is a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The agreement creating the trade bloc came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada.
In terms of combined purchasing power parity GDP of its members, as of 2007 the trade block is the largest in the world and second largest by nominal GDP comparison.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has two supplements, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC).

*From wikipedia._

Globalization

Globalization
I think that in globalization a lot of countries exchange their products. For example: products from china are bought here and our products are sold in other countries. Globalization has good and bad ways, in good way it is the economy evolution ,opportunity for work in different countries,etc. In bad way small countries can´t compete with big countries, prostitution and drugs have developed with globalization. Why? because in our country there are drugs from venezuela,colombia and in the United States there are drugs from our country.
Learning english is part of globalization because to know foreign languages open borders.

This is my personal opinion about Globalization"

For me globalization” is a series of actions by which different countries of the world are unified into a single society, to form a foundation together. This term is commonly used to talk about national economies, trade, foreign, direct investment, capital flows, migration, prostitution, violence, and the spread of technology. This process I mean globalization” is usually identified as being driven by a combination of economic, because it included the economies of different countries, by technological factors because it's related with science and industry, by sociocultural factors because of the interaction of social and cultural elements, by political factors because it’s concerning with politics, and also it included biological factors because of the different foreign products and operations, in which biology is applied.

When we talk about globalization in a context of economic we refer to the removal of barriers between developed countries, and less developed countries, in order to facilitate the flow of goods, that is the movement of money in a country, the capital services, and labour, that is the practical work, especially that kind of work which involves physical effort. Globalization” is also refer to the spread of new ideas, different languages, new cultures and new feelings because when we have new ideas, and we use our ideas to create new businesses, we're contributing with the globalization, and when we know how to speak different languages, we have been impacted by globalization, also if we have experimented new cultures, and new feelings, means that we are connected with globalization.

Globalization have entered in my life through the tourism, I mean when we enjoyed those big hotels, and resorts that we have in our country, by the theatres, and restaurants when we go to the theatres, and we enjoyed a play like we did when we watched the play called heaven” at El Palacio de Bellas Artes or when we go to a restaurant, and we tested new foods, or drinks, by the use of technology, by the use of those big super markets that have been established in our country where we can go to buy foreign products that are imported to our country, or when we buy different style of clothes, or jewellery that are made in other countries, and are sold in our country, by the use of the different transportation that we have nowadays in our country, for example El Metro and its subways which are a big impact of globalization in our culture, in conclusion I think that globalization have entered in our life through everything we used everyday in our life.