Drivers Of Globalization

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The drivers of globalization are: market globalization, Cost globalization, Government globalization and Competitive globalization. Market Globalization Drivers are common customer needs, global customers, global market channels and transferable marketing. Cost globalization: global scale economies, sourcing efficiencies, factor of production differences, high product development costs and rapidly changing technology. Government globalization drivers: unrestrictive trade investment policies, compatible technical standards and common marketing regulations. Competitive globalization drivers: High two-way trade/ cross-border FDI, global competitors and Inter-dependence among countries. Government Globalization: The Government of Trinidad and Tobago in its commitment to support the implementation of Summit goals sought to institute strategic policies to alleviate problems hindering growth and social development. It adopted an integrated focus in order to ensure that social development objectives are incorporated in all areas of governmental decision-making. With the support of the United Nations and other developmental partners, programmes have been developed at the national and community levels to broaden the scope of social development issues in favour of the vulnerable groups. Attempts have been made to move away from the traditional social welfare approach to one that is more developmental and participatory, and to create a more enabling environment for social development through economic reform. Such reform has been geared towards the stabilization of the economy as a prerequisite to improving the quality of life of our citizens. This dictated that Trinidad and Tobago formulate and implement policy measures that would, inter alia: - ensure the sustainability of the growth process; - promote a greater diversification of the economic base; -
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