Globalization on welfare states

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GLOBALIZATION & SOCIAL POLICY
BY: CYPRIAN .U. NDIVE

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Definition of Globalization
 Impacts of Globalization on welfare states
 Approaches of welfare state changes by national factors.
 Pros & Cons of the Approaches.
 Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION
During the 1990’s GLOBALIZATION became a buzzword that appeared to dominate political, popular,
and academic discourse.
Globalization, it seems, is variously blamed and credited for an incredibly wide range of phenomena.
Social problems ranging from famine to floods, from pollution to poverty, and from rural depopulation
to urban overcrowding are commonly cited examples of the many invidious effects of globalization on
social welfare.
Conversely, globalization is trumpeted as being central to many developmental successes, such as
poverty reduction, increasing economic prosperity, better services, and enhanced concern with
human rights.
Even those who are skeptical of the benefits globalization has brought so far may point to the ways in
which it has the potential to transform political, economic, and social relations within and between
countries to the benefit of human welfare worldwide.

4. Cont’d
Globalization was first used in production management studies to describe the
global spread of production systems facilitated by technological advances in
telecommunications and transport systems whereby corporate headquarters
were able to control production sites on the other side of the world.
Globalization entered all the more broadly into well known talk after the end
of the Cold War. The breakdown of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet
coalition in 1989 proclaimed what the US President, George Bush Senior,
declared as 'another world request' and it is the attributes

5. DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION
Globalization is the
term that has been
given to a range of
economic,
technological,
cultural, social, and
political forces and
processes that are
said to have
collectively produced
the characteristic
conditions of
contemporary life.

6. IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON WELFARE STATES
To start with, much of the work turns out to be selective in its coverage of countries,
confined as it is mainly to industrialized countries to the neglect of developing ones.
Secondly, many studies focus only on specific sectors or services (with health and
pensions being particularly favored) from which often inappropriate generalizations
about the impact of globalization on the welfare state as a whole are made.
Thirdly, much of the discussion is still often speculative rather than evidence-based,
and it tends to be prescriptive rather than descriptive. These problems reflect the
deeply ideological, often politicized nature of writing in the area, both from the
political Left and the political Right.

7. PROS & CONS OF THE APPROACHES.
Pros CONS
lowering of social and labor standards
 privatization of public services
 creation of global health and welfare
markets
growing reliance on voluntary and
informal provision
 To curtail the autonomy of national
governments, restricting their pursuit of
comprehensive programs of
redistribution, full employment, and
economic growth.
 Global competition exerts downward
pressures on wages and working
conditions as workers and welfare states
are locked into international competition
to attract FD1, while governments steer
clear of programs and interventions of
which globalizing capital does not
'approve'

8. CONCLUSION
The impacts of globalization on national organizations and strategy self-sufficiency,
welfare states and social arrangements have truly been the consequence of
determinedly worldwide and transnational circumstances, impacts, national and also
neighborhood ones.
Finally, we have seen the influences of globalization on national institutions and
policy autonomy, welfare states, social policies and social strategy. We will all need
progressively to connect with the scope of complex social approach issues that
"Globalization" brings and effectively take an interest up in contriving innovative
reactions concentrated on expanding the wellbeing and social welfare of everybody
around the world.