Reflections on globalization, poverty and development: impact on social economy organization

Abstract

Globalization during the last two decades of the twentieth century and the elapsed years in XXI century, has become a reality in one way or another, settled the current economy and largely the living conditions around the world . It is directly related with development such as this has been a condition for that and globalization is the framework in which this development has been possible . Usually the development entails expansion thus with an increasingly broader market widening up to globalization. But in this macroeconomic equation where is poverty ? probably in the center of the interaction between globalization and development. Poverty is the necessary condition for development and thus for globalization. This paper tries to explain why the development and globalization are supported in poverty to achieve their goals , which are identified with capitalism : that is obtaining maximum benefits and what is the economic model advocated by the actual society based in syncretic humanist values. The social economy, companies which incorporate social responsibility and fair trade based market are a proposal of a new concept of the global economy. It is quite possible that the proposal is more in the utopia side than in the real one . But man has always sought an ideal as close to perfection as possible , even though he knows that he would never reach it. Globalization , development, competitiveness, liberal market and objectives based on capital gains , are all factors that have structured the globalized business world, but all this does not imply the need to maintain the same lines just the the opposite. The world to come is meant to be that of the self management , fair remunerated production and trade , cooperation in the management and democratization of decision making . And in a globalized system, so is the economy. Producers offer their services anywhere in the world , the new values are also going global . Companies must adapt because the markets will force them as they will be conditioned by the new ethics of society. Is unlikely to be a perfect system nor implementation completely achieved, but the exerted pressure will always be positive