Open AccessGLOBALISASI, KEMISKINAN, DAN KETIMPANGAN DALAM DISTRIBUSI PENDAPATAN: KASUS INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Budi Winarno
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ekuitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2548-5024
pISSN - 1411-0393
DOI - 10.24034/j25485024.y2004.v8.i1.2029
Subject(s) - globalization , prosperity , poverty , free market , phenomenon , democracy , development economics , economic globalization , ideology , economics , unemployment , political science , economic growth , market economy , politics , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Globalization has become an actual phenomenon this century. Scientist, academician, politician, and mass-media have been continuously discussing this phenomenon.Its development has been pushed by the revolution of communication technology and speeded up by the low level of transportation cost. Then, supported by the victory of neoliberalism orfrequently called as the New Right in England and in the United States, globalization has also been backed up by the ideology of free market and then has been widely "accepted" in the entire world. This group has convinced that globalization which is based on the ideology of free market will create the allocation of economic resources more efficiently. In the end, this will increas economic growth, prosperity, justice, peace , and democracy. Therefore, every country should open its market widelyfor global market in order to promote the highest economic growth.Jn its practice, however, economic globalization has itsfundamental weaknesses, so that this questions the thesis of neoliberals. Jn many cases, globalization has created inequality of income distribution, unemployment, and the widening poverty in the developing countries, including Indonesia. During the period of economic crisis since the last more than five years, the social and economic life of Indonesian which has been under poverty line, already double right now. One of many causes is globalization.