Through its evolution the world has turned into an interconnected global society. ... Ghemewat believes that the world is not globalized and needs to move away from its previous world views to a newer World 3.0, while Friedman believes that the world is being flattened and the global playing field is being equalized and not growing. ... In Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" as well as Pankaj Ghemewat's "World 3.0," there is an attempt to describe how globalized or non-globalized this technologically based global society is. ... While reading The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, i...

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At the end of World War II, several international institutions were created to manage the world economy and prevent another Great Depression. ... The IMF and the World Bank are the two dominant governance institutions in the world. ... And why have the IMF and the World Bank failed to produce as many benefits for the developing world as they imply to do so? ... Legally, odious debt is debt that resulted from loans to an illegitimate or dictatorial government that used the money to oppress the people or for personal purposed " (2003, p.1). ... The lending programs that the IMF and the World B...

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Economy is a vital part of life in our world, if the global community is deficient, every country in the world will be affected. ... Overall economy in our world is as essential as any other topic at hand. ... Our supply of fresh water is also severely limited: 31 countries are currently suffering from scarcity or stress and for more than 1 billion people clean drinking water is simply unavailable. ... Water wars are almost inevitable, as more people compete for that scarce resource. ... In our world we have issues that need to be faced, and fixed. ...

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GLOBAL WARMING Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war. ... Climatic zones shift by about 100 miles for each 1 C of global warming. ... Atmospheric methane concentration is now increasing at about 1% per year. ... A warmer world will be a wetter world, too, as evaporation increases with temperature and what goes up must come down. ... Many of the world's major agricultural regions, including the U....

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Indeed, the notion that the entire Earth's surface is continually shifting has profoundly changed the way we view our world. ... It has provided explanations to questions that scientists had speculated upon for centuries -- such as why earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in very specific areas around the world, and how and why great mountain ranges like the Alps and Himalayas formed. ... Ortelius suggested that the Americas were "torn away from Europe and Africa . . . by earthquakes and floods" and went on to say: "The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves, if someone brings fo...

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