misleading – a view of the world from a seat in business class. Flatness is another way of describing the transnational search by companies for cheap labor‚ an image that misses the pervasiveness of global inequality and the fact that much of the developing world remains mired in poverty and misery. It also misses the importance of the global geopolitical hierarchy‚ which guarantees the provision of stability‚ property rights‚ and other international public goods. The rise of China and India is less about
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India’s Position In World Science India has get No. 9 position in the world’s Science and Technology map this year. With it’s output of S&T systems growing at a significant 12 per cent as against the global average of just four per cent it has reached this spot. "We have overtaken Spain this year to stand at No. 9‚ one rank up from last year‚" Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan has said. India was ranked 15th in S&T systems output in the year 2002. Addressing
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China vs. The world: Whose technology is it? Executive summary China‚ the country with incredible fast-growing speed of development‚ now is becoming more attractive to Western investing companies than ever. China governments know that and they try to take advantage over that point by forcing the multinational companies to share technology in the exchange of future investing opportunities. This strategy has created a lot of argument and discontent between China government and foreign companies
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Building materials industry is one of the largest markets of wear resistant industry‚ besides cement industry‚ some new construction materials industries become important partners of wear resistant industry. KAIYUAN COMPANY has established long term cooperative relationship with China’s largest pipe pile manufacture---Jianhua Pipe Pile. China has become the world’s largest construction materials consumption nation. The development potential in construction materials industry is huge. Wear-resistant
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The Panama Canal The Panama Canal is a canal that joins the two largest oceans in the world‚ the Atlantic ocean and the Pacific Oceans together. Canals are an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation that is man made. How did they manage to construct this? They used science‚ they had to measure sea level‚ which required science. They used engineering to construct their route. They used several steam shovels to get the dirt out
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"The Material and Trading Worlds‚ circa 1400‚" is to describe what the world was like around 1400 in general terms. The author‚ Robert Marks‚ argues that most changes in history are the result of "huge processes that are hardly detectable‚" coming from the changes in social‚ economic‚ political‚ and cultural structures. He analyzes two major structural aspects of the world in the 1400’s: first‚ material and natural conditions under which most people lived; and second‚ the trading networks‚ connected
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and Banking The World Bank The World Bank‚ when you first hear the name it makes you think that it is a traditional international bank. That is not true though; The World Bank isn’t exactly what you would think it is. In reality‚ it is a group that is compiled of five international organizations that facilitate poverty stricken countries all across the world for developing economic growth and the elimination of poverty. The five organizations that combine to form The World Bank are: The International
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2 _Aim {text:bookmark-end} It will be argued that the world is getting flatter and this is not necessarily a good thing for many reasons. Information technology (ICT) has resulted in economic and social integration but precaution must be taken to prevent future problems that has already arose from it not being used correctly. The history of the ‘’flattening’’ of the world‚ the impact that it has made in the years‚ the challenges the world will face and main disadvantages of it will prove that it
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ASSIGNMENT: The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman Discuss the book in general and what he means by a "flat world" and what conditions make it flat. Focus on at least one specific topic such as 10 flatteners or the 7 rules for companies The book by Thomas Friedman‚ "The World is Flat"‚ discusses the enormous changes regarding technology and communications which have altered the lives of people all over the globe (1). A large aspect in regards to the "flat world" is that we are competing with
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the role of world cities and their operation in global networks. ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction A world city is a large city that has outstripped its national urban network and has become part of an international global system. They have become powerful nodal points for the multiplicity of linkages‚ and interconnections that sustain the contemporary world economies‚ social and political systems. The result is a new world system of cities
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