What are the Benefits?
► Globalization might enable economies to access large markets, reach a greater diversity of product benefits from higher inflows of capital, and gain from technological progress.
 
► Significant portion of industrial capital has ended up in developing countries, especially in the form of FDI and portfolio capital. But not all developing countries have benefited equally.
 
►  The share of the trade of goods of all developing countries in total world trade has risen from 23% in 1985 to 29% in 1995. This is at time when world trade has grown considerably faster than world national income.
 
► The pattern of trade has also improved with developing countries. Between 1985-1995 the share of manufacturing products in these countries’ total exports rose from 47% to 83% in Latin American countries. The share in world trade of other region has fallen, in particular for Africa and the Arab countries since the 1980.
 
  More Resources
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Köhler, Horst (2003) Toward a Better Globalization Inaugural Lecture on the Occasion of the Honorary Professorship Award at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. (Tübingen: Eberhard Karls University)
 

► International Monetary Fund (2000) Globalization: Threat or Opportunity? (Washington: IMF)
 
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Crafts, Nicholas (2000) "Globalization and Growth in the Twentieth Century" (Washington D.C.: IMF)