SOSC 188

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• SOSC 188
• Lecture 15
• The Globalization Project (I) Emergence

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• Developmentalism vs.Post-developmentalism
• Ingredients of The Globalization Project

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Developmentalism vs.Post-developmentalism

• Developmentalism in 1950s
• nation-state focused,
• Development promote industrialization in the
  nation, import-substitution, development
  alliance
• Post-developmentalism in the 1970s
• Global focused,
• Development participation in the world market,
  
• Export industrialization, the NICs as model

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4 Ingredients of The Globalization Project

• (1) Market liberalization -
• cut down state regulations, end
  subsidizes/tariffs,
• go out to compete in the global market
• welcome transnationals to come in to invest
  in national economies (state enterprises) and
  resources (mines and forests)
• (2) Restructuring of states -
• austerity plan downsize the state
  bureaucracy
• cut social services (education, health care,
  pension, etc)
• discipline labor and unions
• privatized public enterprises (railways,
  water, electricity, mail)
• surround powers to global managers like World
  Bank

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Ingredients of the Globalization Project

• (3) The ideology of comparative advantages
• capture global market, not domestic market
• specialize on things that the country can do
  best
• find your niche in the global market

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Ingredients of the Globalization Project

• (4) Global Governance
• Emergence of supra-state organizations -
• World Bank, WTO (World Trade Organization),
  WHO (World Health Organization)
• Global governance over national governance?
• A critique who govern these supra-state
  organizations?
• Supra-state organizations are
  non-democratic, not transparent, and
  un-accountable