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Globalization and 'globalism'

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Intervention in the fifteenth session of the Group of Experts in Public Administration and Finance, United Nations, New York, May 9, 2000.

Globalization is a historical process that presents a threat, a challenge, and an opportunity to developing countries. It should be clearly distinguished from the ideology affirming that national states lost autonomy, and the state, relevance, in the new global economy.