This document discusses globalization and its impact on India. It defines globalization as the intensification of social relations between distant localities such that events in one place can influence those elsewhere. Forces driving globalization include consumer demand, reduced trade barriers, and advances in technology and competition. Globalization occurs through international trade, foreign direct investment, and financial capital flows. While globalization posed some initial obstacles for India, economic reforms embraced openness and helped sectors like agriculture, industry, finance, and exports. Overall, globalization has generated benefits through increased markets, investments, technology, and cultural exchange, though it also brought challenges adapting to more competitive markets.
2. DEFINATION
• Sociologists Martin Albrow and Elizabeth King define globalization as
"all those processes by which the people of the world are
incorporated into a single world society”.
• In The Consequences of Modernity, Anthony Giddens writes:
"Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide
social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local
happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice
versa.
3. FORCES FOR GLOBALISATION
Forces of
globalisation
Consumer Demand
Reduction in
trade barrier
Advancement
in Technology
High
competition
7. Sources of Globalization
• For reducing international trade restrictions in goods and
services and barriers in FDI
8. Sources of Globalization
• For the remarkable
reduction in certain
transportation costs in
international commerce.
• Due to improvement in
telecommunications
facilities
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with many of these companies headquartered in different nations.
10. Channels of Globalization
• International trade in goods and services
• Portfolio capital flows
– Instruments are traded or tradable.
– Equity securities is define to the
instruments and records acknowledging,
after the claims of all creditors have been
met, claims to the residual values of
incorporated enterprises (shares, stocks,
participation, American deposit receipts
(ADRs), mutual funds, and investment
trusts).
– Debt securities include bonds and notes,
money market securities (instruments such
as treasury bills, commercial and finance
paper, negotiable certificates of deposit
with maturities of one year or less), and
financial derivatives or secondary
instruments, such as options.
11. Channels of Globalization
• FDI (Foreign Direct
investments)
– A subsidiary
– An associate
– A branch
• Contract for technology
– License Agreement
– Know-how agreement.
12. Effects of Globalization
• benefited the nation in
terms of generating
national output
• helps to expand the size
of markets
• inefficient domestic
monopolies
16. Measures
• Openness to trade and a country‘s participation in trade.
• Participation in international capital flows particularly (Foreign
Direct Investment) FDI.
17. Opennessto trade and a country‘s participation in trade
India's Trade Performance: Percentage Share in World Trade
Years India's Sharein World Merchandise Exports India's Sharein World Commercial Services Exports
2011 1.7 3.2
2012 1.6 3.2
2013 1.7 3.1
2014 1.7 3.1
2015 1.6 3.3
Source: World Trade Organization
18. Participation in international capital flows
• The annual flow of FDI across the world is more than $ 1 trillion
• The annual FDI inflow into India is $ 44 billion
• Where China has 134 billion and US is having 391 billion.
(Source:UNCTAD, FDI/MNE database)
24. Why reforms were needed?
• change the mindset of people embracing the tradition values such
as self-reliance and socialistic policies of economic development.
• This kind of mindset and self-reliance policy of a country makes it
difficult to compete in the global race.
• To make Indian economy as fastest growing and globally
competitive economy
• the LPG policy was adopted
• It had a mammoth impact on the overall economic development of
almost all major sectors of the economy
25. Impact of globalization on Agricultural sector
• Around 16% of India’s GDP comes from agriculture and it acts
as a backbone of the rural Indian economy.
• Facing a severe economic crisis
• the IMF granted what is called a ‘structural adjustment’ loan
• conditions attached which relate to a structural change in the
economy.
• the reforms sought to gradually phase out government control
of the market
26. Impact of Globalization on Industrial Sector
• that many foreign companies set up industries in India,
especially in the pharmaceutical, petroleum, manufacturing,
and chemical sectors
• this helped to reduce the problem of unemployment in the
country as well as the problem of poverty
• the foreign companies brought in highly advanced technology
with them and this helped to make the Indian Industry more
technologically advanced.
27. Impact on Financial Sector:
• economic liberalization measures have opened the door to
foreign competitors to enter into our domestic market.
• Innovation became a must for survival as it has increased the
competition to a high level.
• Financial intermediaries have come out of their traditional
approach and they are ready to assume more credit risks.
• transformed the financial services sector from being a
conservative industry to a very dynamic one.
28. Impact on Export and Import:
• Many Indian companies have started becoming respectable players
in the International scene.
• Agriculture exports account for about 13 to 18% of total annual of
annual export of the country.
• Marine products in recent years have emerged as the single largest
contributor to the total agricultural export from the country
accounting for over one fifth of the total agricultural exports
• Cereals (mostly basmati rice and non-basmati rice), oil seeds, tea
and coffee are the other prominent products each of which
accounts fro nearly 5 to 10% of the countries total agricultural
exports
29. Advantages of Globalization
• consumers there is a wider range of products to choose from.
• Increase in flow of investments from developed countries to
developing countries
• Greater and faster flow of information between countries and
greater cultural interaction has helped to overcome cultural
barriers