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Positive effects of globalization
- Greater employment opportunities for people.
- Availability of greater variety of goods and services to the consumers.
- More competitive price to the competitors.
- Ability of companies to achieve lower costs.
- Access to bigger markets to business firms.
- Faster and wider spread of new technologies across the world.
Negative effects of globalization
- Unrestricted globalization can hamper the development of less developed countries.
- Smaller firms may lack the resources to compete internationally and therefore may be
forced out of business.
- Countries become increasingly dependent on other countries for meeting their needs for
goods and services. This can become a major disadvantage in situations like war.
- Adverse economic condition in one country can escalate to other countries and may even
adopt global proportion.
- Globalization may also lead to faster spread of infectious disease, for people animals and
plants. Such infection may be carried through, people or goods.
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