Trade

Our world is getting smaller. Improvements in communications systems, transportation, and information highways mean that countries are connected to each other in an increasing number of ways-politically, economically, culturally, and environmentally. The Global Village investigates the effects of globalization on key international issues-for individuals, companies, and governments. Are traditional skills, cultures, and systems being lost in the interests of worldwide trade and economic progress? Can a balance be achieved between the expansion of global activities and preserving the interests of individual countries? Most importantly, what action is being taken to address these issues, and whose responsibility is it to ensure that globalization is controlled and managed in the best interests of all concerned? Book jacket.