Project Description

Armenian State University of Economics 2^nd International Scientific-Educational group was formed in the framework of ASUE Grant Research Project – Globalization and Developing Countries’ Challenges. The Group’s main feature is the involvement of three foreign MBA students from Syria and India who are being trained at ASUE. The Group plans to submit the research outcomes both in English and Armenian.

PROJECT SUMMARY: MISSION, OBJECTIVES AND TASKS

Globalization is one of the modern processes of interaction and international integration which connects the world’s economies and cultures. It is a serious economic-political-cultural phenomenon which covers more and more countries and regions all over the world. Economic integration of different countries promotes the globalization processes stimulating foreign trade and transactions development, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge.

Globalization has been driven by the policies which opened economies domestically and internationally. Being a controversial phenomenon it has a huge number of advantages and disadvantages, unique implications in different countries and regions. Globalization has a lot of positive and negative effects on socio-economic development of different countries, which should be researched and explored by the scholars and practitioners.

Group’s Mission is the evaluation and analysis of theoretical and methodological, practical foundations of globalization processes, exploration of causes and consequences of globalization, its effects and challenges in different countries, especially in developing countries. The problem is also relevant to the Republic of Armenia taking into consideration the modern trends of integration processes. 

 PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• Development of globalization theoretical and practical approaches,

• Exploration of globalization advantages and disadvantages, effects and challenges in developing countries,

• Comparative analysis of globalization economic, environmental, cultural, security impacts in developing countries.

PROJECT TASKS

• To assess the challenges and effects of globalization in developing countries,

• To examine globalization development trends in different regions and developing countries,

• To develop recommendations for minimizing negative impacts of globalization,

• To evaluate the activity of international institutions in globalization processes,

• To explore the opportunities of most efficient implication of globalization in developing countries.