Doha Round: a win-win deal for Norwegian industries - Lamy
05 Jan '07
2 min read
Globalization has enabled individuals, corporations and nation-states to influence actions and events around the world — faster than ever before — and equally to derive benefits from them. It has the potential to expand freedom, democracy, innovation, and social and cultural exchanges while offering outstanding opportunities for dialogue and understanding.
But the global nature of an increasing number of worrisome phenomena — scarcity of energy resources, deterioration of the environment and natural disasters, the spread of pandemics, the growing interdependence of economies and financial markets, and migratory movements provoked by insecurity, poverty or political instability, are also products of globalization.