 Understanding the World AnewChapter Chapter 11 in Delivering Development, 2011, pp 159-171 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The world is not the same place it was only a few years ago. The ongoing economic crisis has cost the advanced economies a tremendous number of jobs and a great deal of wealth. Global assessments show the environmental cost of human economic growth is too high to bear for much longer. In addition, globalization’s shoreline is no longer a place we can think of as being detached from our lives or our fate. Our standard of living and rate of economic growth have been predicated on a particular form of globalization, and the access to resources (both natural and human) that allowed for the accumulation of material wealth and goods in advanced economies. Yet, we have operated with very little sense of how globalization, as a process, played out along globalization’s shoreline, or what the implications of various changes along this shoreline actually were, not only for people living there but also for those living far away in seemingly isolated advanced economies. Our professed concern for that shoreline was charity, or perhaps pity. Now, we must recognize this concern is in our own self-interest. Keywords: Mobile Phone; Early Warning System; Project Design; Advanced Economy; ELIV ERING (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-31997-4_11 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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