Increasing worldwide interdependence

Globalization is the process of increasing interconnections and linkages, within societies and across geographic areas, due to improved communication and expanded world trade. It limits the differentiation wrought by human cultural evolution, and homogenizes health practices, diets and lifestyles.

Globalization means an intensification of the processes of interaction involving institutional, social, political and economic dimensions that became a pervasive force for change in the last 2 decades of the 20th century. Social and institutional dimensions include the spread of education, literacy, scientific and technical expertise, democratic practice, civil and human rights, spread by free and open media and by capacity building in low-income countries. Economic and political dimensions of globalization include improvements for all society through privatization, de‐regulation, flexible labor marker, and free trade. However,...