However, in this paper, I shall not be focussing on the crisis of the Middle Income Heavily Indebted Countries, who borrowed from commercial banks from the industrialised world, mainly the United States who offered the countries concerned loans with short maturity periods and variable rates of interest so that they could rapidly earn profits on their newly acquired "petrodollars" which, they obtained as a result of the OPEC oil price increases of 1973-74 and 1978-79. ... Given the current situation of these heavily indebted poor countries, my aim is to highlight the urgent need for debt rel...

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Others argue that the expanding global economy has instead increased global exploitation and inequalities, and further marginalized the developing world. ... If the person earns more working in the factory, they can spend some of their wages on buying the rice that they would have produced and still have money left over for other things. ... Globalization has helped to reduce transport and transaction costs so the potential gains from specialization are increased. Globalization has also increased competition giving people incentives to keep becoming more efficient. ... Globalization, then, c...

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Interaction between different countries, introducing different cultures into more countries and increasing the global connectivity has definitely resulted in great beneficial change to the world, however it can also has some detrimental effects as well. ...

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