Globalization

MDGs: Millennium Development Goals

What is meant by the Millennium Development Goals?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals with measurable
targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest
people.
To meet these goals and eradicate poverty, leaders of 189 countries signed
the historic millennium declaration at the United Nations Millennium Summit
in 2000
 Global Linkages
• It has a particular focus on those organizations whose work includes
international and global interest
• Global linkages represent the international linkages established through
cross boundary trade of goods and services, or laying down
infrastructure in different regions for undertaking critical operations in
areas intensive in a particular skill.
• Example Global linkage –Industry, Global linkage –Shrinking technology
(mobile, internet)

What does linkage industry mean?

A linkage industry is an industry which is associated or connected to other
industries in such a way that the existence of one is dependent on the other, or
it enhances the other's production process.
These industries are also referred to as 'spin-off' and screwdriver' industries

What is shrinking world in globalization?

The term shrinking world, or often referred to as time space compression,
suggests that this rapid rate of globalization has made the world feel smaller,
that we are more connected to people on the other side of the world than ever
before.

How does technology result in a shrinking world?

• Technology has also made our world smaller.
• It has completely changed the way we communicate with each other
and how we organize work.
• Work groups, by necessity, were originally created around developing,
manufacturing, and distributing physical goods.