Pro or anti-Globalization .

Pro or anti-Globalization
12/28/2018

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Compare and contrast the pro- and anti-globalisation perspectives
on globalisation
Globalisation is the process of the integration and interaction among people, companies
and the government across the world. It strengthens the political, economic, social and cultural
relations among the companies and countries through the global boundaries. Global production
and markets provide the business organisation with an opportunity and progress in the
technology. This essay includes the discussion related to the comparison and contrast of the anti-
and pro-globalisation perspectives on globalisation. These are the major perspectives of the
globalisation which are discussed below with support of arguments.
Globalisation: - Globalisation is considered as the movement of the goods and people in
the different parts of the countries. According to McGrew, Globalisation is defined as the inter-
connectedness in terms of the economic, political and cultural matters in the world (Perraton,
Goldblatt, Held and McGrew, 1997). It contributes in creating the shared social space in the
world. This has been evidence that different authors have diverse views on globalisation.
Considering this author, defines globalisation is key process of change in the contemporary
world and this is one of the fiercely and widely debated concept. Further, the researcher through
light on the age of globalisation that began with the day the Berlin Wall came down. From that
moment in 1989, the trends were evident in late 1970s and accelerated throughout 1980s. The
globalisation leads to the free movement of capital, goods, trickle-down economics and many
others. In addition to this, another author stated that globalisation is highly complex set of
processes (Globalization, 2008). It is refer to as the multi-dimenstional movement or the flow of
goods, technology, information, people, ideas and practice of cultural across the world. In other

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words, the globalisation can be defined as the intensification of the world-wide social relations
which link to the distant localities (Peter Dicken, 2015). There are different perspectives of the
globalisation that are neo-liberal (pro-globalisation) and anti-globalisation (neo-marxist/and
populist right).
Pro-globalisation and anti-globalisation
Pro-globalisation is referring to like the policies that promote the rise in trade, open
communication with the unobstructed movement of the persons between the states (Beck, 2018).
The businesses who take the advantage of the globalisation support the policies like free trade,
offshored manufacturing and many others. Along with this, they also oppose limitations which
majorly include charges, bans and other worldwide obstructive monetary and different
governmental activities by the national administrations.
Contrasting this, anti-globalisation refers to as opposition to the rise in the global
influence and power of the political, social and economic interconnection. In other words, it is
the perception of members who are against the globalization and capitalism. In the anti-
globalisation, the companies can accomplish the community, personal and the financial goals
without the adverse significances that are linked with globalisation because they don’t favour the
same. This perspective of globalisation is blamed for increasing the gap between the poor and
rich which leads to the destruction in the environment and for threatening the human rights
(Giddens, 2018).
Pro-globalisation view
The pro-globalisation view is that globalisation is an effective thing that the countries are
required to embrace the beliefs of the neoliberal with the motive to reduce the barriers to trade,

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subsidies and public expenditures. Thus, all these factors contribute in reducing the poverty and
enhancing the economic growth. This is evidence from the economic growth of China, the
country has the second largest economy across the world. The growth is clear from 2008 in
which there was increase in annual rate by 8% in 2008 and 9.6% in 2009. Moreover, the country
becomes the major exporter and importer of the products. In 2010, the china overtook US with
the biggest trading partner in Africa (Dicken, 2015). Though, contradicting the same, it is found
that the anti-globalisation leads to the insecurity towards the job and rise in the inequality with
the view of the McGrew.
Pro-globalisation specifically shows the positive side of the advancement and happening
that are resultant of the globalisation. Supporters of the globalization state the different opinions
that have the probable to make the other understand about the benefits of it with the support of
the difficulties like poverty and unemployment that are resolved with the support of globalisation
(Baylis, Smith and Owens, 2017). Free trade is to bring the reduction in the taxes, tariffs,
subsidies and different barriers among the nations. This is the only way through which the
poverty in the countries can be brought down. Though, there are still numerous barriers that
affect the countries to gain the advantage of globalisation. For instance; According to the
Washington Post story, the problem is that the big G20 countries added to over 1,200 restrictive
export and import that measure since the year 2008 (Coollins, 2015). Contrasting this, it has been
found globalisation is expected to be related with the free trade but some or the other example of
it shows the numerous obstacles and barriers. For example; 161 nations have put on the value
added taxes (VATs) on the import of the products which are high as 21.6% in Europe (Coollins,
2015). Thus, this shows that the trade is not considered as the free trade as it involves different
types of taxes that are present and supposed to be paid by the companies.