Globalism after COVID-19 Pandemic: A Turning Point in the Separation of Social and Economic Aspects
| Autor: | Kaleh Karim, Sujata Guha, Ryan Beni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Voice of the Publisher. :7-17 |
| ISSN: | 2380-7598 2380-7571 |
| DOI: | 10.4236/vp.2020.62002 |
| Popis: | A global pandemic caused by a microscopic enemy, which outbroke in Wuhan, China, quickly spread throughout the modern world, bringing world’s largest economies to a halt. By March 2020, the whole world was impacted by the ripple effects of COVID-19 and was in the midst of battling this infectious disease. The pervasive economic consequences of the coronavirus are not a macroeconomic problem that can be solved or reduced. Instead, the world is seeing a fundamental change in the nature of the global economy. The immediate crisis is considered to have affected both supply and demand. Declining supply shall be considered as a short-term issue, that stimulus plans by various countries, including a massive plan by the US government, along with historic low interest rates, may remedy. In this article we examine different scenarios of the supply chain’s future and its separation from social trends. Moving nations toward self-sufficiency may deeply alter globalization, which requires the division of labor between different economies. Unless strong economic policy measures are taken to prevent social disintegration, this change may be an end to globalization. Hence, many global leaders have implemented stimulus packages in an effort to relieve the economic stress felt by businesses and families, as a short-term economic stress relief. This pandemic has demonstrated the fragile nature of the US and the global trade system, due to majority of products being manufactured in China. There is an urgent need to expand manufacturing industries to various countries rather than concentrate most of them in one location. This pandemic will result in a shift to self-sufficiency, in the short-term, within borders. However, in the long-run, it will re-define globalization to include more countries functioning as micro-hubs for production, which should be implemented to avoid the “all eggs in one basket” scenario. In addition, this system will enable smaller economies to participate in the global platform. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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