Europe 2020, a document released here on Wednesday, argues that while the financial crisis "exposed structural weaknesses" in the European economy, "the world is moving fast and long-term challenges — globalization, pressure on resources, aging — intensify".
This trend has been reinforced by increasing globalization, which pressures states into conforming to the dictates of the international marketplace.
However, these gains tend to be disproportionately vulnerable both to economic crises and to systemic, globalization-related pressures for "labour market 'flexibility' and fiscal restraint" [ 75](p. 25).
In particular, the Asian financial crisis revealed the state to be most inadequate at performing its historical regulatory functions and unable to regulate the forces of globalization or the pressures from international actors.
Next, it considers macro factors explaining these changes, including labor supply and demand, workforce composition, competitive pressures, globalization, the decline of manufacturing, diminishing unions, technology, and regulatory and legislative changes.
In the context of the ongoing globalization processes and pressures on the efficiency of healthcare systems in the countries, our study focused on analyzing and evaluating the efficiency of healthcare facilities in the various regions of the Slovak Republic in order to detect significant disparities.
By 1993, globalization's downward pressures had reduced a workforce of 12,000 at the plant to 3,000.
Globalization puts downward pressure on prices because companies have to compete more aggressively.
Globalization exerts enormous pressure on employers to restructure operations and to relocate production, and technology makes it easier than ever to do these things.
Interestingly, globalization and the pressure it puts on local firms to attract top talent if they want to survive foreign competition, do not seem to have pushed back, let alone ended, ethnic discrimination.
