English language teaching and teacher education in East Asia : global challenges and local responses / edited by Amy Bik May Tsui, the University of Hong Kong.
"As a number of scholars have pointed out, globalization, in the sense of blurring national and geographical boundaries, has a long history. However, in terms of the establishment of a new economic order characterized by open markets and free trade, globalization began in the 1940s with the est...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge education research series.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "As a number of scholars have pointed out, globalization, in the sense of blurring national and geographical boundaries, has a long history. However, in terms of the establishment of a new economic order characterized by open markets and free trade, globalization began in the 1940s with the establishment of new institutions such the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the precursor to WTO, based on the belief that global integration is more likely to bring about peace and prosperity to all. Much of the discourse of globalization was centered on economic policies that argued for deregulation, privatization, marketization and free trade"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108847706 9781108847704 |