Gllobalization Case

it describes briefly how globalization affects the world.The 262-page report, the 10th the program has issued, is the first to focus on the spread of the Internet and computer technology as well as the impact of globalization. It concludes that the so-called ''rules of globalization'' should be rewritten to save the 60 countries that are worse off they were in 1980 from falling even further behind.

While short on specific proposals for making international markets work ''for people rather than profits,'' the report recommends, as have previous versions, faster debt relief, redirection of aid to the poorest countries and a task force to review ''global governance.'' It also endorses a tax of one American cent on lengthy E-mails to raise $70 billion a year that could be used to connect the world's Internet less.

The report warns that the glaring, growing inequalities in the distribution of wealth pose a ''dangerous polarization'' between rich and poor countries.The report highlights the dominant role of the United States, and as a result, of English -- the language of choice for 80 percent of web sites -- in the new global telecommunications marketplace. It notes that 26 percent of Americans use the World Wide Web -- as opposed to 3 percent of Russians, 4 one-hundredths of 1 percent of the population of South Asia and 2-10ths of 1 percent for Arab states. And it says that the United States has more computers than the rest of the world combined.

It also notes that the annual sales of General Motors are larger than the gross domestic products of Thailand or Norway, and that Ford generates more income than Saudi Arabia. America and the other rich, industrialized nations hold 97 percent of all w

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