Questioning Globalisation
Answer key:
1.
a) True. For: Its supporters say that on a wide range of measures… more people have become richer at a faster pace in the past 60 years than ever before. Against: However, globalisation's opponents would claim that this success has had its negative sides…
b) True. The costs mentioned are not just … the flight of jobs from developed countries to less developed ones or the environmental damage caused by the developing world's rapid industrialisation, but … globalisation's social and cultural effects.
c) False. The paragraph refers to benefits of globalization in the developing world, especially Britain. …for those of us in the devloped world, there is hardly a part of our lives that globalisation has not touched. On the plus side, for example, it has greatly increased consumer choice: Britons can now buy strawberries all year round …
d) False. The paragraph refers tothe need to look at costs and benefits. There should be an attempt to weigh up the costs adn benefits of globalisation to decide whether, on balance, it is making the world a better place or a worse one — not just economically, but across a range of issues.
e) False. Personally… I would be more interested in reading its cost/benefit analysis of the social and cultural questions.
2. 1b, 2d, 3c, 4e, 5g, 6a, 7f
3. a) i, b) iii, c) ii, d) i, e) iii
4. 1d, 2a, 3e, 4b, 5c
5. c, a, b
6. b
