Bangladesh healthcare corruption and workforce vulnerability amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

Amidst the pandemic resulting in a global health crisis, Bangladesh was unnerved by the fake COVID-19 test result certificates issued by the private Regent Hospital in Dhaka. The healthcare corruption was exposed when the Il Messaggero (The Messenger) daily newspaper in Rome reported that infected Bangladeshi migrants were moving undetected throughout the city and were thus a potential health risk. What is the impact of healthcare corruption during a pandemic for the vulnerable people of a developing country in a globalized economy? This article assesses the plight of the Bangladeshi migrant labor force and the ready-made garment sector domestic work force within the framework of vulnerability interdependence, discussing the democratic consolidation context, the environment that led to the issuance of fake healthcare certificates and the potential implications for tackling corruption.

Medievalism Disoriented

This chapter examines the valency of the Middle Ages in the recent French political imaginary, tracing how the nationalist medievalisms of recent decades can be read as a response to the perceived threats and uncertainties of globalization. The chapter explores the heated debates sparked by neoreactionary commentator Éric Zemmour’s use of the Middle Ages to account for France’s apparent loss of identity in the era of multiculturalism and the globalized economy. It also analyses how these debates play out in three recent novels that offer medievalist explorations of contemporary French identity: Jérôme Ferrari’s Sermon on the Fall of Rome (2012), Michel Houellebecq’s notorious 2015 novel Submission, and Mathias Enard’s 2015 novel Compass. By examining these texts together, the chapter offers an account of how France in the age of globalization has used the Middle Ages to understand its own long, contradictory love affair with ideas of nation, empire, and world.

Research on the differences and Countermeasures of Sino U.S. economic and trade negotiations

In the modern business environment of the highly globalized economy, the frequency of Chinese and American businessmen meeting in bargaining of various scales has greatly increased. There are huge differences between China and the United States in business negotiations alone. These differences are partly due to cultural factors left over by history and partly based on their respective development history. We can not simply divide differences into good or bad, but can only be called whether they fit with another negotiation style. Our main focus is to find the most consistent point between the two countries in business negotiations and expand it. However, it is extremely difficult for an individual or a country to change its inherent habits. Therefore, as an objective analyst, the outsiders cannot criticize excessively, finding the most effective way to conclude the negotiation peacefully. The win-win situation for the two influential powers means that the two countries can jointly create more opportunities in the political and economic fields in the future. Consistently, no matter what means are used, they must be carried out on the premise of equality.

A Critique of Marketism: Varieties of Exchanges in China’s Past and Present

The theory and ideology of mainstream Anglo-American “marketism” do not accord with reality. Its core idea—equating all trade with equal and mutually beneficial market exchanges, and believing that such exchanges are certain to lead to division of labor and transformative changes in labor productivity—is a one-sided, idealized construction. It erases unequal exchanges under imperialism and ignores the realities of the use of cheap informal labor in developing countries by hegemonic capital in the globalized economy. It also disregards pervasive unethical pursuits of profit among producers and widespread human weaknesses among consumers. If we proceed instead from China’s actual experiences, we can come to see and grasp the many different varieties of trade that differ from the abstractions of conventional marketism, including the “commercialization of extraction” that long characterized the principally unidirectional “trade” based on severe inequities between town and country, as well as the “growth without (labor productivity) development,” or “involutionary commercialization,” that long characterized domestic Chinese commerce that emerged under severe population pressures on the land. If we turn instead to the “take-off” period of the recent decades in Chinese economic development, we can see also the great contrast between Chinese realities and the mainstream economics construct of a “laissez faire state,” and see instead the state engaging most actively in development, and state-owned enterprises working closely together with private enterprises. Those realities are perhaps most evident in the recent dramatic development of China’s mammoth real estate economy that has been the main engine of rapid development since about 2000—most especially in its immense process of the “capitalization of land.” We can also see how the tradition of the “socialist planned economy” has operated in unison with the new capitalist market economy, by combining the twin ideals and mechanisms of “people’s livelihood” and “private profit.” What is needed is a new kind of political economy that can grasp and illuminate such changes.

‘Traditional Authorities’ and Community Rights in Contemporary Mozambique: between Activism and Incorporation

Mozambique’s donor-inspired ongoing programme of ‘traditional authorities’ ‘(re-)integration’ carries considerable emancipatory potential for local communities in their relations with central political institutions and the globalized economy. By analysing ‘traditional authorities’’ specifically elaborated discourse and highlighting their agency within the dynamics emerging from state institutions’ attempts at ‘incorporating’ them in the sense indicated by Zenker and Hoehne, that is, to deny them all political auton-omy, this article aims to clarify ‘traditional’ leaders’ role in defending their own com-munities’ interests and rights vis-à-vis the state, private enterprises, and development actors/donors. Close examination of empirical data collected during field research in Inhambane province provides convincing evidence of traditional authorities’ general inability to develop effective discursive strategies for the representation and defence of their communities’ interests and rights. By choosing to retreat within the domain of spirituality and to cede much of their statutory prerogatives to more dynamic and bet-ter resourced actors, ‘traditional authorities’ end up accepting their ‘incorporation’ into the institutional structure of the state as merely symbolic objects and sources of inter-nal as well as international legitimacy, thus obliterating their role as natural repre-sentatives of their communities.

Málaga Costa del Sol airport and its new conceptualization of hinterland

The concept of hinterland is changing with a globalized economy, new needs between airports, stakeholders and the tourist destination challenge new dimensions of operation in the territory. Identifying new factors and actors in the influence zone of the hinterland will allow us to stage the importance of airports in the regional economy and the positive effects derived from these. The aim of this paper is to analyse the hinterland of Málaga Costa del Sol airport and its territorial and economic dimensions. Moreover, to provide an updated and clearer definition of hinterland, assuming future implications for airport operators, management of tourist destination by destination marketing organizations and scholars and practitioners interested in this topic. The results revealed that Málaga’s airport is modifying the hinterland of airport and its area of influence in economic and urban development terms.

LA MOBILITE DU MARCHE DU TRAVAIL : MATERIAU POUR UNE ANALYSE SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGIQUE DES PROFESSIONS ET CATEGORIES SOCIOPROFESSIONNELLES

What future for the socio-professional categories in an economy and a society in profound mutations?Thats the question posed by the mobility of work and its world, characteristic of excessive globalization. Indeed, the central place that work, in the diversity of its forms, occupies for man and society has been called into question since the end of the last century with the emergence of new codes of work market access and new job categories. We are attending a categorical recomposition of work where some professional groups have disappeared to give birth to others. The sociodemographic variables are strongly correlating the supply of job which is coated in social inequity. By renewing the debate on the job crisis, the economic and social transformations have engendered a deconfiguration of economic activities by inducing a real overhaul of the work world with as a corollary a destructuration of the job structure.This article restores a survey that analyzes the anteriority of socioeconomic mutations to the deconfiguration of socio-professional categories in professional sphere in central and southern Benin. Thus, this paper aims, as a general objective, to examine the impact of changes of the work world in a globalized economy on socio-professional categories. Specifically, it involves, on the one hand, to inventory the various changes that have occurred in socio-professional categories and their effects and, on the other hand, to elucidate the process of the reconfiguration of the socio-professional categories, which will lead us to explain the configuration of the new nomenclature of socio-professional categories.

Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?

Existing studies have scrutinized the rise of states as global owners and investors, yet we still lack a good understanding of what state-led investment does in a globalized economy, especially in its host states. Comparative capitalisms research has analyzed foreign state investment as a potential source of patient capital for coordinated and mixed market economies. However, this patient capital framework cannot explain the recent surge of protectionist sentiments, even among the ‘good hosts’ of state-led investment. Therefore, we extend the patient capital argument and develop a broader framework centered on the globalized nature of foreign state investment. We create and empirically illustrate a novel typology based on different modes of cross-border state investment – from financial to strategic – and different categories of host states. Our results provide a new pathway to study the rise and effects of cross-border state investment in the twenty-first century.