Globalisation is the idea of making or letting people of different countries be more inter-connected. Globalisation has negative and positive impacts however, and they can be shown on a global, national or local scale.
Globalisation has impacted the amount, and basis, of many trade agreements. Globally, more countries are willing to trade because of how easy and cheap it is to import and export goods. Most of these trade deals have been possible due to the increase and development in technology and the demand and ease of supplying other countries with goods they need or want to exploit, due to new methods of shipping such as containerisation (placing any object(s) in a big container as opposed to using different sized containers that made transportation difficult). All these methods and new inventions have been encouraged and used by many countries on a global scale, impacting their demand and success. Globalisation has helped people and countries to think of new ways to supply the ever-increasing demand of goods as well as impact the way we import or export goods today. For example, without …show more content…
A very good example of this is the European Union (UN) which has made all the European more inter-connected through globalisation. All nations in this union (especially the UK, Germany and France) have benefited from the act of free movement within the “Schengen Zone”. The UK had a job shortage in the primary and secondary sector and the hundreds of thousands of Polish people immigrating to the UK have now filled that gap, increasing the UK’s economic stature and work force. Therefore, nationally, globalisation has helped to make it easier for people to migrate to another country for pleasure or work which can benefit the country’s economy through more tax-payers or