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Negative Effects Of Globalization On Mexico
Pre-Undergraduate Pre-sessional Programme
Summer 2014

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Title: Evaluate the positive and negative effects of globalisation on Mexico

Student name: Marcelo Akira Matuda Baccarini
Student number: M00508077

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Project Teacher: Jeff
The Oxford dictionary define globalisation as the process by which businesses or other organization develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. Multidomestic companies are an international company which perceive market differences and formulates its own business such as, McDonalds which are spread across the entire world and proving to be very efficient,
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People may think that the international companies bring more jobs and profit to the countries although a great part of the money do not stay in the country, it goes to the headquarters which are ,generally, the most developed and richest countries in the world. Along with that, international companies tend to destroy the national companies and discourages the development of national technology. In this essay I will evaluate the positive and negative impacts of globalization on Mexico analysing how it have influenced the economy of the country. The ambassador of Mexico Jorge Eduardo Navarrete (2001) claims that not all countries have been able to benefit from the opportunities that globalisation has created. Only a few number of newly industrialized countries such as, the city states of Hong Kong and Singapore, together with Taiwan and South Korea have been able to take full advantage of globalization (Herbert H. 2003). At the same time, Thomas L. Friedman (1999) said that the countries that attempt to avoid the globalization are doomed to poverty and that the more you open your economy to free competition, trade and let …show more content…
Globalization may have increased inequality in Mexico which has one of the most unequal income distributions in the world. According to Cypher (2001). The top decile of the population has grown to more than 40 percent of the nation’s income, a huge difference in comparison to the 33 percent in 1984. The uncontrollable growth of inequality may have started with the “neoliberal model of development “. By the year of 1982 Mexico was the most indebted nation in the world, inflation was reaching almost 100 percent and it was required to them by the IMF and the World Bank to adopt an “ export-at-all-cost” strategy which eliminated most important licenses, drastically reduced tariffs, entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) etc. In 1994, Mexico has had the highest rate of export growth in the world and at the same time 42 percent of the Mexican population was living below the poverty line. Some indicators show the Mexican government’s failure to translate economic success into a higher standard of

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