4 main factors that contribute to the expansion of globalization
What is communication, trade, transportation, and the media?
IMF
What is the International Monetary Fund
Agreement aimed to reduce trade barriers among member countries Goal: To eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers between themselves. Regulated trade services and goods. Set rules to protect copyright and intellectual property.
What is the GATT?
What are the Three pillars of globalization? economic, political, and cultural.
economic, political, and cultural.
The negative connotation of this political cartoon relates to what term when it's instantaneous?
What is sustainable prosperity?
Established a set of rules, institutions and procedures for the post WWII economy.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement (1944)?
WB
What is the World Bank?
Occurs when two or more countries eliminate tariffs and taxes on the goods and services they trade with one another.
What is free trade?
Occurs when one company hires another company to fulfill certain tasks in production.These other companies are often located in countries where government regulation is less strict.
What is outsourcing?
A sense of connecting to, caring about and taking responsibility/accountability for others and the world around us connects to?
What is stewardship?
87% of these factories are owned by American companies or subsidiaries on the US/Mexico Border
What is the maquilas/maquiladoras?
WTO
What is the World Trade Organization?
Set dependable international exchange rates and promote foreign trade. Provides emergency short term loans and demands reform in countries to get rid of corruption.
What is the IMF?
What is Globalization?
the process of increasing the connectivity and interdependence of the world's markets and businesses. This process has speeded up dramatically in the last two decades because of the advent of the internet
What are the positive impacts of privatization?
It leads to the creation of wealth, cost production is reduced, and profits are maximized.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is one reason supporting and one reason opposing NAFTA?
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
What is the United Nations?
This world organization, that is still around today, was created after WWII as a place in which nations could settle international disputes.
A penalty, such as a trade boycott, taken to pressure a government.
What is a sanction?
Give an example of a transnational corporation
Coke, KFC, Apple
This term defines how the world is increasingly interdependent of world economies on a constant growing scale for counties to trade
What is economic globilization?
GATT
What is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades?
Ensures that the terms of trade agreements are followed, settles trade disputes between governments, and conducts trade negotiations
What is the WTO?
Process where countries remove or reduce the barriers to trade to allow for the easier flow of goods and services.
What is trade liberalization?
What is free market?
To act without being subjected to one government's control is because of this term that allows for the free flow of goods and services