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Globalization (North American spelling; also Oxford spelling [UK]) or globalisation (non-Oxford British spelling; see spelling differences) is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide.
As of 5 November 2020, the coronavirus has killed more than 14,000 people in Indonesia. [60] In late 2020, the pandemic has caused the economy to fall into a recession for the first time in 22 years. [61] In October 2020, protests erupted throughout Indonesia after the DPR passed the controversial Omnibus Law on Job Creation. [62]
Perhaps the extreme proponent of a deep historical origin for globalization was Andre Gunder Frank, an economist associated with dependency theory.Frank argued that a form of globalization has been in existence since the rise of trade links between Sumer and the Indus Valley civilization in the third millennium BC. [4]
There are similar trends for electric power, cars, radios, and telephones per capita as well as the percentage of the population with access to clean water; [80] however, 2.6 billion of the world's population in 2008 lacked access to proper sanitation, [81] and billions of people ("around 1 in 4 people") still live without clean drinking water ...
2020 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of ...
Wawasan 2020 or Vision 2020 is a Malaysian ideal introduced by the fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, ...