We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide,… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped… — Naomi Leite Copy Share Image
The '90s came, and then the 2000s, and we saw radical corporate interest extremism, we've seen the disparity between rich and poor… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Having common European standards has not only boosted prosperity here and across the continent, it is undoubtedly the best way of managing… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
“One World is not abolishing frontiers, which would lead to a surge in migration, create tension and destabilise life on our planet.… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
In this era of globalisation, I believe that the only way to push the Philippines forward is to focus our energy on… — Lucio Tan Copy Share Image
Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial,… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains… — Pankaj Ghemawat Copy Share Image
Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be… — Margaret Hodge Copy Share Image
Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, the entertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexual content, is increasingly making… — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. — William Hague Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own--… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is… — Mette Frederiksen Copy Share Image
In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn Copy Share Image
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
