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MBA 7710 Globalization: Analysis and Response

This guide will provide resources to support the survey course which defines the factors of globalization and describes the unique environment within which managers must plan and make decisions.

Supplemental Reading

What is Globalization?

Nye, J. (2002).  Globalism versus Globalization.

Retrieved from https://www.theglobalist.com/globalism-versus-globalization/

IMF Staff Issue Briefs. (2008). Globalization:  A Brief Overview. International Monetary Fund.          

Retrieved from https://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2008/053008.htm

Population Demographics

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, Key Findings and Advance Tables.

Retrieved from https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/publications/files/wpp2017_keyfindings.pdf

UN Data Graphs. (2017). World Population Prospects.

Retrieved from https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/

The World Bank. (2018). World Development Indicators/Themes/People.  

Retrieved from http://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/themes/people.html
  

The World Bank. (2018). The Data Blog.  

Retrieved from https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/introducing-two-new-dashboards-health-nutrition-and-population-data-portal

Tavernise, S. (2019). Hispanic americans' birthrate dives as women pursue inroads. 

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Steven, L. M., & Fu, C. (2019). China gets a flood of ideas to buoy its birthrate. Will it listen?

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Income Around the World

The World Bank. (2018). The World Inequality Report. 

Retrieved from https://wir2018.wid.world/

United Nations DESA/Population Division. (2018). World Urbanization Prospects.

Retrieved from https://population.un.org/wup/

The World Bank Group. (2018). Poverty and Shared Prosperity.

Retrieved from http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity

Kharas, H. (2017). The Unprecedented Expansion Of The Global Middle Class An Update.

Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/global_20170228_global-middle-class.pdf

The World Bank. (2018). Accelerated Remittances growth to low and middle income countries 2018.

Retrieved from https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/12/08/accelerated-remittances-growth-to-low-and-middle-income-countries-in-2018

International Trade

International Monetary Fund & The World Bank. (2018). Reinvigorating Trade and Inclusive Growth.

Retrieved fromhttps://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Policy-Papers/Issues/2018/09/28/093018-reinvigorating-trade-and-inclusive-growth

Trade Policy Implications of Global Value Chains. (2018).  OECD Trade Policy Briefs. 

Retrieved from https://www.oecd.org/tad/trade-policy-implications-global-value-chains.pdf 

McDonald, B. (2018). International Trade: Commerce among Nations.

Retrieved from https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/trade.htm

International Capital Flows

Fruman, C. and Forneris, X. (2016). The false debate:  choosing between promoting FDI and domestic investment.

Retrieved from https://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/false-debate-choosing-between-promoting-fdi-and-domestic-investment

Coy, P., Wadhams, N., Viscusi, G., & Smialek, J. (2018). The Tyranny Of the U.S. Dollar. 

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Katz, A. (2019). The Cost of Dirty Money.

Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-dirty-money/?srnd=premium

New Silk Road (One Belt One Road)

Mauk, B. (2019). Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy?    

Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/29/magazine/china-globalization-kazakhstan.html

Horwits, J. (2019). A Forgotten Italian Port Could Become a Chinese Gateway into Europe.

Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/world/europe/italy-trieste-china-belt-road.html

Imomnazar, I. (2018). Impact of «One belt, one road» initiatives to the economy of central Asian countries)

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Dolbaia, T. (2017). Initiative Of China: "one Belt - One Road" And Perspectives Of Georgia.

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Luft, G. (2016). China's infrastructure play: why Washington should accept the new Silk Road. 

 Retrieved from https://bi-galegroup-com.ezproxy.library.berkeley.org/global/article/GALE%7CA463401008/d2476e1c07d4495fd995ddacb8af23a2?u=berkeleycoll

Kalifa, D. R. (2018). Grand Idea: China’s Ambitious Belt and Road Initiative Also Has Its Hurdles    

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Yong, D.. (2018). How China’s Belt and Road Is Reordering Asia. 

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Abi-Habib, M. (2018). How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port. New York Times.

Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html

Nordin, A. H. M., & Weissmann, M. (2018). Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order.Retrieved from https://ezproxy.library.berkeley.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=128565815&site=eds-live

Campbell, C. (2017). The New Silk Road. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.library.berkeley.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=126019083&site=eds-live

Hurley, J., Morris, S. & Portelance, G. (2018). Examining the Debt Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative from a Policy Perspective.Retrieved from https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/examining-debt-implications-belt-and-road-initiative-policy-perspective.pdf

Dreyer, J. (J2019).  The Belt, The Road and Latin America. Retrieved from https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/01/the-belt-the-road-and-latin-america/

Global Competitiveness and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Schwab, K. (2018). The Global Competitive Report 2018. 

Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-competitveness-report-2018

Davis, N.  (January 2016). What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution? 

Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-is-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/O

World Economic Forum (2018).  The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving Globalization 4.0. 

Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-is-driving-a-new-phase-of-globalization/

World Bank (2016).  Enabling digital development: Six digital technologies to watch. 

Retrieved from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/896971468194972881/310436360_201602630200216/additional/102725-PUB-Replacement-PUBLIC.pdf

Zeman, E. (2018). What is 5G? A Guide to the Transformative Wireless Tech That’s Being Hyped to Change Everything.

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Technology and Innovation Report. (2018). Harnessing Frontier Technology for Sustainable Development.

Retrieved from https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/tir2018_en.pdf

Political Landscapes

Link, S. (2018). How might 21st-century de-globalization unfold? Some historical reflections. 

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