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Other Resources:

The International Forum on Globalization

The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.

www.ifg.org

Globalization Issues website by Keith Porter

Contains a wealth of information about globalization – both for and against.

http://globalization.about.com/

Globalization website of the American Prospect

Globalization website of the American Prospect, a new liberal American review. Most articles are critical of globalization

http://www.prospect.org/issue_pages/globalization/

Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?

Website on globalization maintained by the International Monetary Fund. Most articles tend to stress the positives of globalization.

http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm