Globalisation, Education and Development: Ideas, Actors and Dynamics
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Since the mid 1980s there has been an explosion of interest in the idea of globalisation.
Throughout this period there has also been an unprecedented rise in prominence and influence
of a range of multilateral and supranational organisations, such as those tied into the system of
global governance. There is now a thickening web of multilateral agreements, global and regional
institutions and regimes as well as trans-governmental policy networks and summits that
characterise the global economy and polity. Correspondingly, there have also been shifts in the
nature of global production networks and the increasing penetration of multinational corporations
and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) across the planet. The period has also produced new
social inequalities across the world, particularly as a result of economic globalisation.
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Globalisation, education and development