Buscador: Globalització

30/01/2006 That the first, second and third worlds coexist within India has long been known. A new academic report corroborates this but also speaks of a 'fourth world' left behind in this country of a billion people, that aspires to be a global leader. The country's first ever ‘Social Development Report' warns that, since the economy was liberalised 15 years ago, disparities and inequalities have sharpened and regional imbalances widened to a point where social instability has become a serious threat.

30/01/2006 SAFTA is aimed at reducing existing tariffs to less than 5 per cent within a stipulated time frame to boost trade among the SAARC member countries. India will have to allay fears of other members about its dominance

30/01/2006 Environmental activist Medha Patkar has asked Left parties to take a firm position against the machinations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), International Monitory Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) whose funding programmes "are aimed at changing our priorities and culture.''

30/01/2006 University Grants Commission (UGC) has created a task force for setting up a National Qualification Framework (NQF) for standardising knowledge and skills of various programmes in different universities and institutions. NQF is a set of principles and guidelines by which the learner's acquired knowledge and skills are registered, enabling the conferring of national recognition.

30/01/2006 Patrick Vieira's life story, from humble beginnings in Senegal to triumph with France, shows that football is the world's most globalised industry, says Simon Kuper.

28/01/2006 Si algo quedó claro en la manifestación de apertura del pasado martes 24 fue el respeto de los movimientos sociales anfitriones, las fuerzas "chavistas', por no imponerse en una marcha que tuvo mucho más de internacional, multicolor y diverso que de local, unicolor y partidista. Un primer ejercicio de respeto de los locales con respecto a las numerosas delegaciones invitadas que fueron las verdaderas protagonistas de la marcha aunque bien sostenidas por organizaciones sociales venezolanas.

27/01/2006 Globalisaation edut maksimoidaan keskittymällä sen taloudellisiin ja yhteiskunnallisiin hyötyihin ja investoimalla globalisaation hallintaan ennaltaehkäisevästi, YK:n kehitysohjelman (UNDP) uudessa teoksessa painotetaan. Kirjan tekijät kuuluttavat luovaa ajattelua globalisaation uusien riskien ja mahdollisuuksien ympärille.

27/01/2006 We observe that poverty of nations instead of wealth of nations and simultaneous wealth of transnational corporations. The wealth of the world has increased -- multinationals are becoming wealthier, but the majority of the people of the world and most nations of the world, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), are becoming poorer. Mohammad Zakaria, ActionAid, Bangladesh, analyses the impact of globalization on LDCs and in particularly on Bangladesh. But the article represent south asia.

25/01/2006 Indian participation in the first two phases of the polycentric World Social Forum (WSF), which wound down in the Malian capital of Bamako on Monday and opened in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 24, is mainly from the WSF Indian Working Committee (IWC). Still hundreds of Indian students and grassroots activists from the women's, peasants' and trade union movements are preparing to travel to Karachi.

24/01/2006 Caracas, ciudad capital de uno de los epicentros de la actual transformación política y social que vive América Latina, es hoy la nueva Meca de la izquierda internacional. Miles de activistas (100 mil según los organizadores) llegaran hoy a esta ciudad, provenientes de 170 países. Participarán la versión continental de la sexta edición del Foro Social Mundial (FSM).En:La Jornada

24/01/2006 Nyt kuudetta kertaa järjestettävää Maailman sosiaalifoorumia (WSF) on moitittu siitä, että se arvostelee globalisaatiota tarjoamatta ratkaisuja ongelmiin. Tänä vuonna kolmelle mantereelle hajautettu WSF on kuitenkin malliesimerkki globalisaatiosta parhaimmillaan, kirjoittaa yhteiskuntatieteiden tohtori Kumi Naidoo.

24/01/2006 The number of people unemployed worldwide climbed to new heights in 2005, as robust economic growth failed to offset an increase in people seeking work – especially among the vast and growing legion of jobless youth, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends released today.

24/01/2006 Senior members of the Communist Party of India, along with Pakistani-born British writer and filmmaker Tariq Ali, will lead anti-US protests, labelled Anti-Imperialist Day, in New Delhi on Tuesday. The aim is to mobilise public opinion to demand withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, oppose military action against Iran, North Korea and Syria and express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

23/01/2006 Africa, the world's poorest continent, for the first time is playing host to the World Social Forum, the anti-globalisation movement set up as a counterweight to a forum of the world's rich and powerful.

21/01/2006 Three critical developments in the nineties have shaped the on-going development discourse - the emergence of the knowledge economy and knowledge societies, formation of the WTO and ratification of the MDGs at the UN millennium summit. All the three initiatives were intended to strengthen the development agenda and improve the condition of the people who are still out of the development framework. Today if we gauge the progress of these three initiatives the result varies-this view was express by Dr.Nilay Ranjan and Dr.B.Shadrach of Oneworld south Asia in a paper presented at Hong Kong.

19/01/2006 The Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement signed in 2000 is taking toll on the health of the Indian Vanaspati industry.

16/01/2006 El VI Foro Social Mundial (policéntrico) y II Foro Social de las Américas que se llevarán a cabo del 24 al 29 de enero de 2006 en Caracas, pondrán a prueba el proceso de construcción de este espacio original del movimiento antiglobalización y propositivo de otro mundo posible. En:Foro Social Mundial

16/01/2006 América Latina busca con desesperación su camino, en medio de un proyecto que se agota y de otro que se perfila poco a poco, sin que esté claramente definido.

13/01/2006 An Indian woman, a victim of terrorism in the Kashmiri valley, has been nominated to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Board of Directors.
Savita Bhan Wakhlu, a successful New York-based entrepreneur, became the first Indian and the first international woman in the 32-member board of directors.

13/01/2006 Voicing the opposition to the unilateral diktat of the Union HRD Ministry to the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) against opening a campus in Singapore, Union Minister Kapil Sibal strongly argued for greater autonomy to institutions of higher education.