For South Africa itself, global integration offers its giant conglomerates a chance to become world-class.
The forces of global integration are a great tide inexorably wearing away the established order of things.
Yes, we need to keep liberalizing our economies and pursuing greater global integration.
Sydney scored highest in the categories of global integration, having a skilled talent base and for its technological advancement.
Global integration requires new thinking about trade statistics, which should be reported on a constituent value-added basis, if at all.
South Korea over the past four decades has demonstrated incredible growth and global integration to become a high-tech industrialized economy.
Globalised finance, it turns out, is an inextricable part of global integration.
They are going through the global integration of their own business.
That points to the third big industry-wide trend: global integration.
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Driven mostly by technological progress and global integration, the speed of everything is going up and up, and this is now demanding that we run organizations in a different way.
While to state that initial conditions on the extent of global integration are vastly different at the outset of Bretton Woods in 1946 and today is an understatement, the direction of regulatory changes have many common features.
Although the rubs are frequently specific to the country at hand--the crux of the U.S. controversy is illegal crossing from Mexico for work and social services--the phenomenon of a planet on the move is part of a broader global integration.
Technological progress, and (it should follow) increasing global integration, are in some ways natural and self-fuelling processes, depending chiefly on human ingenuity and ambition: it would be hard (though, as history shows, not impossible) to call a halt to innovation.
In principle globalisation can help to stabilise economies if they are at different stages of the cycle, but the very forces of global integration are likely to synchronise economic cycles more closely, so that downturns in different countries are more likely to reinforce one another.
The next ten years saw a great change: accelerating deregulation, technological advance and global economic integration.
The first flag is a wave of geopolitical events that undermine national, regional, and global economic integration.
Advances in global economic integration as well as financial reform measures such as Dodd-Frank and others are moving market participants to trade their financial instruments on centralized, monitored exchanges so we can help avert another financial meltdown like we had in 2008.
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In addition, even some countries with surpluses, such as Russia, have banks that have grown accustomed to easy foreign lending because of the integration of global finance.
Pinera attributes Chile's integration into global markets to free-trade agreements with China, the U.S. and Europe and the government's mission to transform the country into a developed nation before 2020.
Karl Salnoske, the Executive Vice President of Service Delivery and CIO at GXS, a global leader in B2B integration, had a very diverse set of experiences prior to becoming a CIO.
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"This is a very significant event, which signals Russia's integration into the global trading system, " he said.
Change will come about through free trade and integration into the global economy, not by sanctions or military action.
The IT revolution has allowed more goods and services to be traded across borders, and it has fuelled the integration of the global capital market.
Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's finance minister, argued that these organisations need to take into account the changing world order, given India and China's integration into the global economy.
High growth rates, the emergence of large middle classes in countries like China and India, the continuing integration of the global economy--all this is powered by energy.
India's medium-term growth outlook is positive due to a young population and corresponding low dependency ratio, healthy savings and investment rates, and increasing integration into the global economy.
Yet Russia's aspiration to membership, which in turn opened up the prospect of joining the Paris-based OECD club of rich countries, demonstrated its desire for integration into the global economic system.
It is still known there as Hindustan Unilever, a reference to the decades its local subsidiary spent as an essentially independent company before its fuller integration into the global firm in recent years.
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