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GLOBALIZATION
“Espiral" (1958) by Alexander Calder UNESCO
/Globalization and global community
UNMD 5. We believe that the central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world’s people. For while globalization offers great opportunities, at present its benefits are very unevenly shared, while its costs are unevenly distributed. We recognize that developing countries and countries with economies in transition face special difficulties in responding to this central challenge. Thus, only through broad and sustained efforts to create a shared future, based upon our common humanity in all its diversity, can globalization be made fully inclusive and equitable. These efforts must include policies and measures, at the global level, which correspond to the needs of developing countries and economies in transition, and are formulated and implemented with their effective participation.
DHDR Article 1.c: "Global community" means States—including their governments, legislatures and judicial institutions -, international, regional and sub-regional intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, public and private sector corporations, including transnational corporations, other entities of civil society, peoples, communities and individuals taken as a collective.
Human Development Report 1999:
Globalization with a Human Face
Global
markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the
lives of people everywhere. The challenge is to ensure that the benefits are
shared equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for people—not
just for profits.
This
year’s Report argues that globalization is not new, but that the present era of
globalization, driven by competitive global markets, is outpacing the
governance of markets and the repercussions on people. Characterized by
“shrinking space, shrinking time and disappearing borders”, globalization has
swung open the door to opportunities.
Breakthroughs
in communications technologies and biotechnology, if directed for the needs of
people, can bring advances for all of humankind. But markets can go too far and
squeeze the non-market activities so vital for human development. Fiscal
squeezes are constraining the provision of social services. A time squeeze is
reducing the supply and quality of caring labour. And
an incentive squeeze is harming the environment. Globalization is also
increasing human insecurity as the spread of global crime, disease and financial
volatility outpaces actions to tackle them.
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Davos
Annual Meeting 2004 - Global Interdependence
Arabia Arun Shourie, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of India Introduced by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York Chaired by Paul Martin (more)