Perhaps the most conspicuous illustration of this point is the embrace of 'free' markets and global integration as the only appropriate bases for national macroeconomic policy – a phenomenon that leads us to examine some of the key drivers of globalization, as distinct from the manifestations of globalization processes themselves.
Unprecedented growth in foreign investment from the 1880s to the 1900s served as the core driver of financial globalization.
The main driver, I believe, is the merger of globalization and the Information Technology revolution.
A more in-depth understanding of globalization and the drivers and politics of these growing commodity markets, as well as potential implications for policy and for participants, is developed across the remaining papers.
A core upstream driver of the nutrition transition is globalization [ 4- 6].
The ICT revolution fueled by the exponential progress of the semiconductor technology and the accelerated pace of globalization has become an important driver of economic growth across nations.
We identified and defended a definition of globalization that gives primacy to the drivers and effects of transnational economic integration, and addressed a number of important conceptual and methodological issues in studying globalization's effects on SDH and their distribution, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary approaches that reflect the complexity of the topic.
With the next roundtable workshop, Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century: From Government Regulation to Corporate Social Responsibility, held 13 14 October 2004 in Washington, D.C., the group turned its attention to globalization as a potential driver of environmental health.
Problems of globalization.
An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.
