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Annals of the University “Constantin Brâncuşi”of Tg-Jiu, No. 1/2008, Volume 2,
ISSN: 1842-4856
markets, which represents a challenge for all the economies, regardless of their development rate.
This evolution at a world-level determines changes in the structure of competitively factors of the
firm. All these will impose a new dynamic for the globalization process. In a hierarchy of
importance, the cost factor comes after factors like: quality, utility and convenience, being able to
adapt to the exigency and needs of customers etc.
4. Conclusions
The globalization is a chance, in the extent in which it offers countries and enterprises the possibility
to focus more in those domains of activity they are most strong in. The globalization presents some
risks especially when there are inadequate frame conditions, which are sanctioned faster than ever
before. In this sense, the authorities have an important role in the domain of political economy. They
have to create a frame that will give enterprises the best conditions to develop. Some specialists
from developed capitalist states admit that the globalization took place with contradictory effects in
world economy, a fact that generates tension and crises situations in international economic
relations.
According to the statistics presented by the World Bank, while the income of some countries in
Africa, situated bellow Sahara wave dropped in the last 20 years with approximately 0.7% per year,
the average income for industrialized countries have increased with 25% per year. More and more
families live in fear of hunger and malnutrition because of the lack of a working place or low
salaries, while the fortune of great magnates grows in a geometrical progression. In the year 1960,
the difference in income between 20% of the richest countries and 20% of the poorest countries of
the world was of 30 to 1; in the year 1990 the gap grew to 60 to 1 and at the end of the 20th century
it was of 75 to 1. (10)
The mission of globalization is not to misconstrue the truth, but of finding viable solutions for
creating a modern society in which the fundamental rights are to be respected. Regardless of the way
it is considered, one thing is for sure: the globalization is a process with an objective feature,
imposed by the evolution of techno-science progress, which can be neither contested nor eliminated.
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