Globalization
While not a topic at UNCED or in Agenda 21, globalization has increasingly become a major issue at the center of discussions about sustainable development during the past decade. Below are references to some of the key links of views on the topic.
US government: views & policy
- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board on globalization (November 14, 2000)
- US State Dept on "challenges of globalization” (Remarks by Joan E. Spero, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, September 26, 1996)
- The US perspective on globalization (by Stuart Eizenstadt, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, April 1999)
- EPA on globalization (April 18, 2000)
US civil society commentary
- International Forum on Globalization
- Globalization and governance (Worldwatch)
- Corporate Watch on globalization
- Center for Economic & Policy Research
- Globalization Challenge Initiative
- The language of globalization (by Peter Marcuse, July/Aug 2000)
- The biology of globalization (by Elisabet Sahtouris, 1998)
- Global Policy Forum
- Nautilus Intitute
- Globalization After Seattle
US business & industry commentary
- US Council on International Business
- Globalization...a powerful force for raising living standards” (ICC statement at Denver Summit, June 1997)
- Globalization.com
Other views
- US public attitudes towards globalization (October 1999 survey by Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland)
- World Bank views on globalization
- International Monetary Fund on globalization
- IMF managing director (Horst Köhler, April 2, 2001)
- Globalization and poverty (by Vandana Shiva, Sept/Oct 2000)
- Congressional Institute
- American Prospect
- What in the world is globalization?(BBC News, Sept 14, 2000)
- Expand the debate on globalization (Time Magazine, Feb 2, 1998)
- Commission on Globalization (State of the World Forum)
United Nations documents
- Globalization with a Human Face (UN Development Programme, 1999)
- Globalization and human rights (UN Commission on Human Rights, 1999)
- Globalization and the environment (UN Environment Programme, 1997)
- Globalization and gender (UN Development Fund for Women, March 1998)
- Globalization and liberalization (UNCTAD)
