What does economic globalization entail?
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Founder of ISEC
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About the video: ‘What does economic globalization entail?’
Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about globalization. She explains how governments across the political spectrum pander to private sector demands, often at the expense of smaller businesses. Deregulation and subsidies mean that “big business” is driving farmers and other small enterprises into bankruptcy. Many small businesses are forced to merge in order to survive. This, she says, creates a stress-ridden corporate culture based on survival of the biggest. What is needed, Norberg-Hodge suggests, is greater awareness that a sustainable economy ultimately depends on the health of the world’s natural and social environment. She notes that this is already happening as diverse interest groups link up to challenge the status quo.
Total views: 6,193
Filmed: Johannesburg, South Africa on 1 September 2002
Credits: Interviewer - Michael O'Callaghan Camera - Michael O'Callaghan Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2002 Global Vision Consulting Ltd
About Helena Norberg-Hodge
Founder of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and Co-Founder of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG). A linguist by training and a native of Sweden, Helena has been extremely critical of conventional notions of development. She first visited Ladakh in 1975 and founded the Ladakh Project to provide Ladakhis with the means with which they could make more informed choices about their own future.
In recognition for her work she was given a Right Livelihood Award in 1986, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize.’
She is the author of the highly acclaimed “Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh” (1991).
She is on the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture.
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