IDSB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Infant Formula, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Informal Sector
26 Nov 2012
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Idsb04 - globalization, trade and worker health- lecture 6. Free trade zones/export processing zones: try to attract new business as well as foreign investment by tariffs and quotas are eliminated and regulations and labour productions are lower. Informal sector: tnc"s do not need to abide with the regulations of the new country. Gnp: measure of national income and output tat estimates the value of goods and services produced in an economy. Angles on health and globalization p. 418. Changed from the vol of trade of 10 yrs ago (which was lower), it is not a question of the volume, but how that trade was regulated. Privatization has eliminated access to certain things. Health problems also understood as manifestation of globalization: spread of disease, spread of politicial, social, and cultural conditions that underpin health and disease. Integration of local/national economies into global markets: system of transcontinental trade and travel, communications accelerated: transport, electronic media, cultural importation, invasion, hegemony.
