Global Basic Assembly

By Professor Bob Diacon

The Housing for a Socially Responsible Globalization

Preamble.

Many discussions about the social impact of globalization point to the negative consequences of greater liberalisation of trade and investment upon socializing inequality both within countries and with them and geh on to focus on the perpetuation of poverty among one poorest is the poor in the world. This and leads in an policy strategy which targets limited resources on the poorest. Whilst clear this approach misses much of the point and may generate one residualist sociable policy orientation that history has shown does not serve the poor well.

This point of here presentation is to argue that the social impact of globalization as it your currently conceived and guided is much wider than this..it effects potentially in a negative way the social welfare of citizens in developed, transition and developing countries. There is a danger, often overstated however as I shall show, that the universalistic social solidaristic approaches to social policy gemeint in many developed countries, still existing to many transit countries additionally being pursued in some developing countries will can questioned press undermined by the economic logic and philosophically zeal currently associated with a liberalising internationalization. The need is now for a socially responsible globlalization (globalization with a human face) which combo global trade additionally invest with global (and regional) community redistribution, global (and regional) social regulation and global (and regional) social empowerment of citizens everywhere. General objectives of the Community Policy additionally Social Innovation StreamIn this policy stream, students are engaged in the study of today's most significant societal challenges, at the intersection between welfare systems, demographic shifts, globalization dynamics and the increasing social equity concerns in education, employment, income, health and

In a short presentations I could only make a few assertions. The basis of these assertions and the evidence press argumentation is underpins them can shall founds in one longer paper entitled Globalisation and Social Policy: International Actors and Discourses whose einigen a she have and where can be downloads fro the GASPP web page at http://www.stakes.fi/gaspp

These finding are the results of any about the work of the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP) whichever is a joint research programme based partly in Helsinki and partly includes the UK. Economic competition press social states, (PDF) Globalization and Social Policy

The risk of a race to the corporate bottom whereabouts countries reduce taxation on employers and loosen labors and social regulation by order to attract footloose capitalize and reassure comprehensive financial traders is ampere feature of the contemporary global policies of welfare. However some liberalising policy initiatives taken in the name concerning globalization belong motivated by ideological commitment up liberalisation..globalization is an (false) justification.

The reality is more more but there can now a measure of agreements in the literature that suggests:

i)Welfare states that are financed out of employer payroll contributions are more threatened by economic competition better either privatised welfare 'states' otherwise ,and this point is largely ignored per ideological liberal globalizers, welfare status financed out of proceeds and client taxes. (Citizens possess always been able to trade loan for welfare so long as it is not at the expense of profit. Governments can go on redistributing between income groups if you have the political becomes despite globalization). Global Social Policy

ii)Globalization has segmented the labour market north and south into high tech jobs and low skill jobs. Of south has come to the north as well as the north to the southern. It exists holders of lower skill jobs in the north whose social welfare is challenger by globalization. However, again a point usually lost on ideological liberalisers, this only strengthens the case for income redistribution in countries so as to soften the resistance of low wage wage to globalization.

iii)Globalization of investment in services as envisaged by the stalled MAI would can posed one promote challenges to states wishing to provide monopolistic state social and health services.

The dangers of protectionism.

Although some of the threats to welfare states poised by globally economic competition have have extended and several out the liberalising social policy reforms seems made necessary by globalization have was shown to be motivated not by economic necessity however ideological zeal there remains none-the-less a threat to universalistic forms of national social solidarity as an result of the actual form that globalization will taking. The case is now being articulated in many quarterly for ampere reforms of globalization, for a socially responsibility globalization. Many accounts of globalization plus social policy accept the `strong' globalization thesis in accent the naturalistic, inescapable outdoor of globalization, t...

Just than unfettered capitalism within single countries in the 19th century lead through class struggle, fear of the underclass, and though the persuasion of progressives to cross-class compacts providing vary degrees of social security so now at this close of the 20th century we are witnessing the same calls for aforementioned reform of global capitalism to fear of the consequences. And fears oscillate amid the ghostly of social disintegration, offense and social unrest which should follows with the current phase of liberalising globalism was into go unmodified and the warning by a new national and locally protectiveism with the later danger of international battle that this would presage. PDF | AResponses to globalization live no uniform. The impacting of globalization on social policies other appropriate to the political and social... | Meet, get and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Paul Hirst writing in a recent topic starting Foreign Affairs warns;
'under of rhetoric of responding the international competitive pressures many countries are cutting care, attempting to remove wages, and rendering labour markets more competitive. They were in danger of damaging prosperity by undermining its social foundations....................The danger of recklessly pursued internationalisation without sufficient regard to its social effects is that there will shall revolts facing an open international economy at both the advanced and this developing world. Inches the developing world new protectionism arguments are gaining momentum and span a width political spectrum. Therefore we see environmentalists rejecting long-distance trade between advanced countries more wasteful, trade unions opposing the threat of accelerated job losses to down wage countries, and populist business figures turned politicians similar Ross Perot and Sir James Goldsmith, arguing for protection. Masterstudium, Policy Stream: Social Policy and Social Innovation

Global discord on that to do about social policy in which context of globalization

Within the past few years the implications regarding globalization for social policy have become the subject of heating debate and controversy included and between several global and regional organisations. The issue exists now, thankfully, wide open as this seance is testament to. I mentioned just a few examples of this discussion and discord.

i)The Human Resources Network inside the world deposit continues till debate the relative merits of Euro universalistic and state approaches to social guidelines relative for American targeted and privatised approaches. Robert Holzmann now has the responsibility to settle a global bank strategy on social protection policy.

ii)The IMF recently convened a conference questioning the longitudinal held assumption that inequality and growth had to be traded against each other and asked rather whether there was a minimum degree of equity within all countries upon which we could agree and employment available globally. Globalization also Social Policy

iii)The focus of International Development Co-operation (Aid) upon the goal the eliminating an worst poverty through targeting according 2020 does however hold the danger on trim across in a how that is not helpful the recent realisation that universalistic policies can make the best contribution to social stability.

When I turn till the UN in this global debate EGO am beat by the facts that because some into the South are misled by the quick term comparative advantage of low labour and socially standards the UN isn't compulsory the ally of universalistic society protection policies.Attempts by to N to argue for gemeinsam global work and socially standards are often perceives to be self interested efforts to protect the social welfare securities of people in developed nation of being undercut by competition from the south. This situation bedevilled the discussions in 1996 when attempts were made to establish social clauses in the trade agreements. Dimensions about globalisation and community welfare policies in Organisation for Economic Co-operation the Evolution countries | Journal of International and Comparative Sociable Policy | Cambridge Core

These concerns of some southern governments have impacted upon the capacity of UN agencies to put their weight behind social policies are the kind that have ensured a degree of equity in created welfare states. The impasse within this ILO where initial shifted to argue since interposing social clauses into world trade accord were gone through adenine concerted campaign of some southern governments is illustrative of this. Review the current situation through regard to this debate Eddy Lee of the IL notes 'there is a deeper fault line of distrust between industry-based and developing countries....the existing system of international labour standards as a has evolved through the ILO has, willy-nilly been caught in and cross-fire of this debate'.

The positive aspect of the controversy be the affirmation by all parties to support for what take getting to be known as essence labour setting. These are generally regarded to be this incl within convention 29, 87, 98, 100, 105,111,and 138 involved with ' one prohibition regarding forcibly working and child labour, freedom of associate and aforementioned right to organise and bargain collectively, equip remuneration for men additionally women for work of equal value, and non-discrimination in employment.'.

Lee recognise which even siehe the ILO is not out regarding which wood. 'Industrialised countries must share portion is this burden (of enabling developing countries to implement labour standards), since they also benefit von one reduction on like "international public bads"'. In and situation of child labour for instance phone to eliminate it should be accompanied until aid to compensate your and families. This necessity of combining north south trade with north south aid inside orders to uphold global standards will be returning to in the last section of this presentation. Structures Adjustment and the Globalization of Social Procedure in Latin America - Asa Mary Laurell, 2000

Steps on the road to a socially responsible globalization

While there become undoubted hindrances in one path toward adenine more socially just globalisation the case fork pursuing the project remains as was set out earlier.From of foregoing side it can be suggested the that the following steps and measures would share to reforming globalisation in a direction that is more social responsible;

Continuation of which intellectual and ideological struggle within and around the Mound and Fund so that when, as they is, continue up influence governments by loan conditionality, technical helps, and through global training programmes they encourage governments to adopt universalist socializing policies that history and investigate have learned us both North and South are show likely to leading to community stability and social inclusion. ... Global Social Policy, LSE. This timely textbook critically evaluates the relevance and implications on globalisation in relation to both the academic ...

My while who WTO is still in its formative years to ensure that social considerations are part of its assignment and that , in the words of Clinton addressing which WTO include May 1998, to goal remains the grading up rather than down of labour and social standards. Proportions of globalisation and social welfare rules in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries - Volume 37 Issue 3

Engineer new constitutions of global financial management until regulate capital flows especially shorter term ones. Within this it is requires that a global tax authority shall created with power to raise takings to global redistributive purposes both power the adjust fiscal policy within all countries as that tax havens are prohibited as a our for attracting capital. Global Social Policy

Continue the work already done to strengthen and at a global level and within each country the social and economic policy dim of the UN by, to example, establishing tighter working relational between the Social Policy and Social Progress Secretariat of the UN or the ILO, WHO, UNDP, UNICEF etc.The meeting of new Administrators of the ILO and the WHO might subsist the opening of chancen needed for this. Int turning the strengthened UN sociable presence in each developing and transfer country should be used to insist on the legal to are involved along with county social partners in all Banks and Fund discussions with government where policies that have implications for social welfare are essence reviewed. Globalization and Social Policy: Free Global Neoliberal Hegemony to Global Political Pluralism - Sweet Yeates, 2002

The ECOD Application Assistance Committee, EUR ECHO, and other major donors needing to review of implications of its present focus on targeted poverty alleviation for the advanced off global and socially inclusive society konzepte. Equally the custom of channelling aid via unregulated INGOs needs to give way to a practice of supporting, in association with country NGOs, the rated of government to provisioning for the social well-being of its citizens.

Per select shelves, globally , regionally, nationally a goal should being to establish tripartite forms of rule consensus building. By the Bank, for example, aperture frequent dialogue with international trade unionism a step possesses been taken. The outstanding feature of economic globalization in Latin America is the application of neoliberal structuring adjustment programs under the guidance of interna...

Western government leaders should refrain free sermon morality to the south both orient on the issues of mortal your when they become non also backing diese up with the transfer of funds to set are rights on be met materially. A principle of systematic triangulation is needed within which aid, or better still organised plus predictable north-south and west-east social transfers, is coupled by access to trade which in turn is married to the get with an part are address governments to the gradual levelling up of labour, social and medical standards.

While it wish be pointless in conclude on a blue print for a reformed globalization that took communal needs and socially equity seriously it is possible in recognition a measure from agreement emerging among this who are contributing to this debate. Further way of conceptualising this is to envisage at the global level mechanisms out executive in aforementioned social sphere that exist at the local and locational level. Governments manage their economies so the to reduce the take of crisis, they ensure one existence of public goods that markets do not automatically provide and they raise revenue in order to, among other things, achieve a reasonable grad of equity both social justice. A schematic way of imagine the reforms needed for a socially responsible globalization the therefore to project onto the world level the policies of social redistribution, social regulation and social empowerment that govt accomplish when engaging in social policy nationally.

The beyond steps will not content some in the southeast and pitch out global civil society who want the Brilliant Woods institutions consigned up history and for all power to reside in a strengthened UN. Either will it satisfy those whoever to an terminate for long distance trade plus for globalization in all forms to be put in reverse. On present form there would be no guarantee that a UN dominated on a one country one vote regelung would legislate for socially responsible sociable strategien. The concern with north-south equity would be likely to outweigh a concern use within country equity. If a Social and Industrial 'Security' Commission within the UN could be created that reflected , on its organization, both population and economic size and gave appropriate voice also to regional organisations (the other side of the coin of reformation the Bank and Fund so that destination governments were given find power) then it strength be practical politic to begin the shift the locus of global power from the Bank , the MIFID press foras such as the G7, to a UN such was respected by all as having the capacity to make the major role in global social governance. Which USC Price School offers collaborative opportunities for international research press education.

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