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World’s Citizens Have Great Expectations of Globalization
World’s Citizens Have Great Expectations of Globalization
Published 06-26-02
Submitted by GlobeScan Incorporated
TORONTO, Ontario - According to the 2002 Global Issues Monitor survey, conducted between October and December 2001, the world’s citizens have great expectations of globalization and are increasingly receptive to it since one year ago.
The 2002 Global Issues Monitor provides critical insights and comparative country metrics on a range of issues including globalization, approaches to reduce global poverty, roles for government, global security, and expectations of the future. The survey reveals a number of important insights that have implications for the international business and policy environment.
Some topline findings from the 2002 Global Issues Monitor include:
Positive views of globalization have grown over the past year, especially in North America and Europe, but support remains tentative. Majorities of people in 19 of 25 countries think that globalization is positive for themselves and their families. However, this support is tentative, with only one in eight people seeing globalization as strongly positive.
People feel that the globalization agenda is not addressing important issues like the environment and human rights. As such, anti-globalization critics will have opportunities to make gains given negative perceptions about globalization’s impacts on jobs, poverty, and the environment.
Solving social problems and reducing human rights abuses are seen to be the sole responsibility of governments by a majority of people across the world. People think that other issues such as reducing the gap between rich and poor and reducing worker exploitation should be joint responsibilities between governments and companies.
There is strong public support for national governments and, to a lesser extent, multilateral agencies to lead a war on poverty, with a focus on primary education. Most people think that world leaders should address poverty and conflict at the meeting of heads of state in September 2002. In addressing poverty, people see universal primary education as a higher priority than reducing the number of people living on less than a dollar a day or improving access to safe water.
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These results are based on research conducted by Environics International’s worldwide network of respected research institutes. In each country, extensive face-to-face or telephone interviews were conducted with representative samples of about 1,000 citizens (for a total of 26,000). Each national poll is accurate to within ±3 percent, 19 times out of 20.
The complete country-by-country results and attendant strategic implications from these and many other questions are available by subscription to the 2002 Global Issues Monitor report.
Environics International is a global public opinion and stakeholder research company with research partners in over 50 countries. Established in 1987, it specializes in providing continuous tracking, insights and strategic counsel on global issues to multinational companies, national governments, multilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations.
