From the variety of foreign soft drinks on your local supermarket's shelves to your country's representatives taking part in international meetings, globalization is evident in virtually all aspects of our life, no matter where we live. ... One the one hand, the spread of media and the free flow of information worldwide may allow people to be more aware of global catastrophes, violence and social evils than ever before, and this awareness might lead people to do more to fix these global problems. For example, pressing matters such as global warming, women's rights and the threat...

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In such a context part of the problem with understanding globalisation is the nature of the populist, sometime hysterical, discourse on the subject to be found not only in the media but also in a range of so-called scholarly texts that reduce 'globalisation' to a set of slogans to be either exhorted or demonised.1 Throughout the 1980-90s for many of its advocates--and when understood economically as trade liberalisation, financial deregulation and privatisation--globalisation has been an uncontestably good thing. ... Our ability to solve Keynes' three problems under conditio...

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established in the wake of the World War II in 1946 to: promote international cooperation on finance, encourage stability in exchange rates and orderly systems for exchanging money between countries providing temporary assistance for countries suffering balance of payments problems The IMF frequently seeks institutional reform in the countries to which it provides temporary financial assistance. ...

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