Globalization is already a powerful force for ... power, and cultural uniformity . Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalization in terms of growing economic

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The absurd U.S. policy on asylum should make room for Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for American agencies. I RECENTLY HEARD FROM an Iraqi friend of mine, whose identity I am compelled to conceal. Until a month ago, Y was working for the U.S.

... poster boys for the inevitability of globalization. In shapeless T-shirts, baggy pants

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It is widely assumed that indigenous cultures are under threat: they are rooted in landscapes that have undergone radical transformations, and the opposing forces of business corporations and ruling political powers only seem to grow stronger. Yet Jeff Sis

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