Globalization

Globalization is the integration (connecting) of people, companies, and governments of nations around the world, and is a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.

• False
• True

What is a Japanese car company?

• Honda

• Ford

• Volkswagon

• Land Rover

How has Honda helped Alabama?

• Japan created a car factory and created jobs for Alabama

• They gave them money

• They made them give up their most valuble possetion

• They asked them to marry them

What did the United Nations create in the 1990’s?

• Homeland for Jews

• 8 Millennium Development Goals

• A new weapon

• A flag

What is one major issue the UN wants to reduce and combat against?

• To end nuclear war

• To drill for more oil

• Reducing child mortality and combating major diseases.

• To build a new building

According to the UN, what is extreme poverty?

• When you are living in a bad neighborhood

• Severe lack of basic food, safe drinking water, shelter

• When you don't have a cell phone

• When you only eat off the dollar menu

What is a major threat to the improvement in global poverty rates?

• Nuclear War

• Soviet Union military aggression

• Climate Change

• Annoying teenagers

Why do goods and services move around the world faster than ever?

• Free trade agreements, and technological advancements.

• The United Nations

• Space Travel

• Magic

One reason why are mobile phones helping to reduce global poverty?

• They make life more fun

• help farmers get the best price for stuff they’regrowing.

• They are supper cool

• They think they are magic

One way international trade created new opportunities for impoverished people?

• Can sell their products and labor in a global marketplace.

• Farmers only.com makes it easier to date online

• People can get rid of stuff they don't want anymore.

• Foreign stuff is better