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.

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)

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