Bordeless world - Globalization
“One page reflection on whether we have a borderless world, and to the extent w do, is it a blessing or otherwise?”
Each year, the world’s market is growing. The 7 billion human living on Earth is a huge market that every companies in the World want to acquire. . This particular reason makes us tend to a borderless World. But there are still some factors that slow this process, like religions, cultures, laws and so on.
In order to increase international trades, governments and organizations try to put in place agreements between nations; like the WTO (World Trade Organization) with the 153 members, the NAFTA (North American Free Trade) between the US, Canada and Mexico or the European Union. All these agreements are for promoting and encouraging companies to market throughout the World. Monetary funds play a major role in that as well, like the IMF and the World Bank. We also have in Africa, to help the less developed countries competing, the African Development Bank created in 1964. America and many European countries like France, Germany, UK… are the “role models” of the other nations, they want to be like them, this is a goal that could help the World become one. All the infrastructures, like ports, hubs, road, communication, internet help to be “close” to each other, nowadays to go to a point A to a point B, is as easy as going to your neighbors’. As the free movement of people throughout the European union.
Couples of things show how the borders tend to disappear like the outsourcing, franchising, alliances between companies and so on. It helps companies to be global, and the more we will be global, the less we’ll have borders. However, even if this process is on the right way, there are still inescapable barriers.
In my opinion, the main one is culture. Indeed, each country is different; living with different standard of living and various traditions; and these factors don’t help most companies to be global. For example, if a company like
Each year, the world’s market is growing. The 7 billion human living on Earth is a huge market that every companies in the World want to acquire. . This particular reason makes us tend to a borderless World. But there are still some factors that slow this process, like religions, cultures, laws and so on.
In order to increase international trades, governments and organizations try to put in place agreements between nations; like the WTO (World Trade Organization) with the 153 members, the NAFTA (North American Free Trade) between the US, Canada and Mexico or the European Union. All these agreements are for promoting and encouraging companies to market throughout the World. Monetary funds play a major role in that as well, like the IMF and the World Bank. We also have in Africa, to help the less developed countries competing, the African Development Bank created in 1964. America and many European countries like France, Germany, UK… are the “role models” of the other nations, they want to be like them, this is a goal that could help the World become one. All the infrastructures, like ports, hubs, road, communication, internet help to be “close” to each other, nowadays to go to a point A to a point B, is as easy as going to your neighbors’. As the free movement of people throughout the European union.
Couples of things show how the borders tend to disappear like the outsourcing, franchising, alliances between companies and so on. It helps companies to be global, and the more we will be global, the less we’ll have borders. However, even if this process is on the right way, there are still inescapable barriers.
In my opinion, the main one is culture. Indeed, each country is different; living with different standard of living and various traditions; and these factors don’t help most companies to be global. For example, if a company like