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Research Project What is Globalisation? The word "globalisation" can be defined as having many meanings, depending on how one wish to interpret the true meaning of globalisation. Primarily, it can be seen as an economic phenomenon, which over the years has integrated national economic systems through international trade and investment. In general it can be used to describe the increased pace of interconnectivity that has taken place over the recent years in states and societies, which contribute to the present world system. Globalisation has been made possible due to technological advances, which can now allow information and products to travel much faster than previously, on ever widening geographical boundaries, making communication with people and companies much faster and easier. Albrow, M (1999) defines globalisation as 'a process in which constraints of geography of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware they are receding'. There is...

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