Global 3000: The Globalization Program
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GLOBAL 3000 – DW-TV’s new globalisation magazine looks at the issues that are moving us today, and shows how people are living with the opportunities and risks of globalisation. GLOBAL 3000 gives globalisation a face. (Author: DW-WORLD.DE | Deutsche Welle)
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Recent episodes from Global 3000: The Globalization Program
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Published: Sep 8, 08Africa urgently needs to make progress. As the country's top media, radio can play a significant role in the progress. As a result, Deutsche Welle has created a new, educational radio program for Africa called "Learning by Ear."It uses playful and entertaining radio dramas to present practical knowledge on topics such as health, globalization, the environment or technology. Via short wave and satellite, including 200 partner stations, the program reaches some 33 million people all over Africa. T
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Published: Sep 8, 08Geoff Buchan of Australia is our respondent for this show.He is a bus driver and painter. He says he lives in a geographical wonderland. While he tells us about it, he says painting makes him happy and explains why.
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Published: Sep 8, 08The say education is the key to development. Ethiopia's taken this on board and has decided to build 13 universities in just four years, while modernizing its building sector.With the slogan "Run where others walk" Ethiopia is going on an educational offensive to make its people into the country's most important resource. Once educated, Ethiopians will trigger industrialize the rest of the economy. We take a look at how this is going to work at the campus in the small town of Debre Birhan.
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Published: Sep 1, 08Hardworking Waste Workers – A Peruvian Woman Turns Workers Into Small-Scale EntrepreneursPucallpa is a fast-growing city in the Amazon region of Peru. A few years ago, the city was in danger of drowning in garbage because, like many other cities in the world, it had no organized waste disposal system. Thanks to Albina Ruiz, that has changed. She founded the recycling company "Ciudad Saludable", which means "Healthy City", and has turned the waste problem into an entrepreneurial success story.
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Published: Sep 1, 08Cristina Kountiou is 27 years old and is currently lives in Hong Kong, where she works as a fashion designer.Cristina designs clothes made of ecologically sound materials, combining her profession with her passion for environmental protection.
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Published: Sep 1, 08When companies merge across national borders, they are commonly said to be facing up to the challenges of globalization. In other words: If you want to survive, you have to be big and strong.Now employees are applying the same strategy. The largest British union, Unite, and the American Steelworkers Union have merged to become the first transatlantic union. In Britain, only a quarter of all employees are still members of a union; in the United States the figure is down to one in 13. Unions in ot
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Published: Sep 1, 08Cristina Kountiou is 27 years old and is currently lives in Hong Kong, where she works as a fashion designer.Cristina designs clothes made of ecologically sound materials, combining her profession with her passion for environmental protection.
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Published: Sep 1, 08In a recent World Bank analysis, countries like Columbia, China, and Saudi Arabia get good marks as sites for investment - countries where labor laws and workers' rights play no role and that nip in the bud any attempt to change the situation.The world labor market is growing together, but working conditions around the world could not be more disparate. If unions want to meet this challenge, they will need new strategies and new allies. The United Nations labor organization ILO is trying to inst
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Published: Sep 1, 08In a recent World Bank analysis, countries like Columbia, China, and Saudi Arabia get good marks as sites for investment - countries where labor laws and workers' rights play no role and that nip in the bud any attempt to change the situation.The world labor market is growing together, but working conditions around the world could not be more disparate. If unions want to meet this challenge, they will need new strategies and new allies. The United Nations labor organization ILO is trying to inst
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Published: Aug 25, 08Fumiko Shino organises events for a newspaper publishing house in Tokyo and is very interested in cultural exchange.She is concerned about world developments, climate change and the fact that more and more traditional Japanese items are being imported from countries like China.
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Published: Aug 25, 08Puffins are chubby, amusing, excellent flyers and something of a national symbol in Scotland. The islands off the Scottish coast are an important breeding ground for puffins and other sea birds.But their chicks often fail to grow big enough to survive. The reason: their parents cannot find enough food and so they starve. In particular, the warming of the North Sea has meant sand eels have become scarc. Looking for evidence on the island of May.
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Published: Aug 25, 08Fumiko Shino organises events for a newspaper publishing house in Tokyo and is very interested in cultural exchange.She is concerned about world developments, climate change and the fact that more and more traditional Japanese items are being imported from countries like China.
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Published: Aug 25, 08Sea turtles have lived on our planet for more than 200 million years. They have few enemies, but should fear humans. Their shells are made into jewellery and handbags and their eggs are considered a delicacy in countries like Sri Lanka.All seven species of marine turtle are threatened with extinction. A protection program started in Rekawa, in the south of Sri Lanka, some years ago is now bearing fruit. The fishermen who used to steal eggs from the nests and sell them are now working as nest min
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Published: Aug 18, 08In Peru, taking medicine can be like Russian roulette. 40 percent of all medicines on the Peruvian market are counterfeit. And users are lucky if the medicine is merely ineffective. The pills and treatments are often poisonous, harming more than they help – sometimes even causing death.The police and public health authorities cannot control the problem. There are hundreds of small pharmacist shops in Lima alone. And that’s where most Peruvians get their medicine. It’s cheap there – but d
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Published: Aug 18, 08Gemma Michalski is an entrepreneur whose new company produces and sells organic soups in Germany.She considers herself an example of globalization, because she was born in England, traveled throughout the world, and now lives with her German husband and three children in Berlin.
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