The term globalization encompasses a range of social, political, and economic changes.
Globalization often appears to be a force of nature, a phenomenon without bounds or alternatives which creates new markets and wealth--not without costs.
The following resources provide data on the growing global interconnectedness and draw a statistical and contextual picture of globalization.
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