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Globalization and its effects on developing countries Bangladesh

Globalization and its effects on developing countries Bangladesh

The globalization is the great process of operation a business in lots countries all over the world. Also, it is a way of interface and combination among the people, companies, and governments of different nations. Indeed, it is the free movement of capital, goods, and services around the world. Today the effect of globalization refers to the increasing interdependence of the world’s economy. It has creates economic dependency but also bring dramatic change on various countries. Marxist theories think that globalization is the latest stage of international capitalism.

Today there are many modern, develop and developing country are more or less within the fold of globalization. Bangladesh with its expanding influence of exports and imports is no exception to that. Globalization is increasingly becoming more and more popular, because most of the countries see their better fortune in this arrangement. Globalization covers a wide range of issues, economic, political, cultural, etc. There are scopes of win-win gains of the involved countries in their dealings. Since the issue of globalization is more a dream than reality, an effort was made to make the readers more aware about the issue, so that they take more interest in implementing the nobler ideas of globalization.

Although Bangladesh is a poor country but we are keep touching in globalization. Our developing is pretty influenced by globalization. It can be said that globalization means changing the technology and upgrade the system for the national development. An information system can be defined as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization ,in addition to supporting decision making, coordination and control, information system may also help managers and analyze problem, visualize complex subject and create new product in Bangladesh . Information systems contain information about significant people, places, and things within the organization or in the environment surrounding it. Global survey identified five categories to measure in Bangladesh e-government progress such as emerging web presence, enhanced web presence, interactive web presence, transactional web presence & fully web presence. E-government or electronic government means the delivery of government services and information to the public. Bangladesh as a developing country with a good number of promising young people has proved its worth in the field of IT.

In Bangladesh, globalization has made more dynamic and progressive. It has brought change in economy, polity, culture, society and the people themselves. In the finance and banking sector, this change is more tremendous. The E-banking systems are electronic system where the transaction and relationship between the bank and client grow through electronic devices instead of paper document. Bangladesh has a long experience of carrying the privatization programs. The privatization program starts in mid 70s and is still continuing. Since then globalization has made privatized more than one thousand units & industry.

Recent study indicates that, globalization has created new world order, which effectively influences everything that comes in our mind. It makes a friendly relationship between industrial and developing countries. Before globalization, the border transaction was not secure enough and it was more cost effective. The boundary between domestic and international trade is much easier now because an expansion in the capacity and variety of cross border transactions in goods and services. Today, many developing countries have been change through the flow of economically, technology, trade and capital. It is not long ago, Bangladesh was economically poor and number of people ware illiterate but today it is looking at globalization to strengthen its economy to fight any perceived threats. Though the effect of globalization is overall great, but the reality is that globalization show it’s both positive and negative impacts on the economy of Bangladesh. A thorough understanding of the effect of globalization is needed to use its advantages to improve her economy. This may also help Bangladesh maintain a constant growth in the face of likely economic threat.

The existence of various NGOs in Bangladesh has made some significant differences, but the economic effect from them is not as great as it has been advertised. Indeed, the true economic situation of the country is revealed by its overall industrial position. Bangladesh had inherited some industries, which were immediately nationalized at independence.

The world community thought it had solution of Bangladesh. It poured billions of dollars of lotion for Bangladesh. It poured billions of dollars of economic aid to bolster the country’s economy. Many non-governmental organizations also came forward to help. Despite the tremendous influx of foreign aid, the country’s overall economy for the general people did not improve much even after some 35 years of its existence as an independent state. It is not to say that Bangladesh has not made any improvement. The country’s economy is said to have grown 5 per cent a year during the past decade. But the general public benefited little from it since most of the gain was forfeited by the privileged
In conclusion, Globalization is a well excepted term all over the world, but developed countries are the real beneficiaries of the concept, while the developing countries are in a confused situation to relate the term on their economic, social, political and personal life and it cannot helps to reduce the gap between haves and have not

Battle between leading E-commerce websites

Since its inception in 1995, ecommerce is very important in the business environment in terms of money and time. Today’s, consumers are not only spending but also demanding optimized and personalized sites that could offer them a richer and more relevant online experience. Facing a tough competition, every ecommerce site promises and offers a lot. While some ecommerce sites can attract customers, some can’t. In my blog I will discuss why Amazon.com is the king in the ecommerce industry.
According to an article which has been published on April 23, 2013 in Forbes.com, world’s biggest ecommerce battle is now in between Wal-Mart, world’s largest retailer of any kind and Amazon.com, the biggest online store on the planet. But the battle is not only in between them. As the internet becomes more commonplace and the concept of web marketing is ever expanding, every company small or big is trying to grab more sales traffic through their web portal. By 2013, global ecommerce sales will be crossed over $1.25 trillion.
So what ecommerce is? Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a type of industry where people buy and sell products or services using electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Today, we can buy almost everything and anything through online. While it’s very easy to get into an ecommerce website and dreaming start selling products, but it is important to make sure that the website must have all the necessary features than can help to convert all traffics into sales. Here we have three giants of American retailing: Amazon.Com, Walmart.com, and Costco.com. All three are from same mass merchant industry. Each of them promises savings. While Amazon delivers through online, Wal-Mart delivers through supercenters and Costco from warehouses.
Amazon
Though Amazon has been started as online bookstores in 1995, but its expansion has been propelled rapidly in innumerable directions and Earth’s biggest bookstore has become Earth’s biggest everything store. While the website still offers millions of books, games, movies, and music, the site offers all kind of electronics, health and beauty aids, toys, groceries, home furnishings, auto parts, and of course general merchandise categories, including apparel and accessories. It offers products and services such as e-commerce platform, online advertising, self-publishing, hosting, and a co-branded credit card. From the site, consumers can download games, MP3s, e-books, and films to their pc’s, handheld devices and in Amazon’s own portable e-reader, the Kindle. Amazon’s fourth quarter revenue in 2012 was $21.27 billion.
Figure 1: Quarterly revenue of Amaazon.com
Wal-Mart
Founded by Sam Walton in 1962, Wal-Mart now has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names. As the world’s #1 retailer and fourth largest e-commerce retailer, Wal-Mart has operation both in stores and through their website. With more than 2.2 million employees, Wal-Mart basically sells groceries and general merchandise through more than 4,000 stores, including 3,000 supercenters in the US. While Wal-Mart’s total revenue exceeds the revenue of Amazon, but its ecommerce sales are behind of Amazon. The projected revenue of Wal-Mart by 2013 will be $9 billion, whereas Amazon’s revenue is projected to exceed $65 billion
C. Costco
Our third company is Costco. Founded by James Sinegal and Jeffrey H. Brotman on September 1983, Costco Wholesale Corporation is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise. Costco is the 2nd largest retailer in the US and 7th largest in the world. Based on membership, Costco’s main competitors are BJ’s Wholesale Club and Sam’s Club. Costco acquired 68.2 million members by February 2013. Though its sales totaled $97.062 billion by August, 2012, with $1.709 billion net profit, but its online sales are far behind compare to Amazon and Wal-Mart. However, it did a decent business last year through ecommerce about $2 billion in sales.
II. Comparative study based on essential parts
So far, e-commerce has been experienced different phases. Now we have phases of the online shopping experience going back to the 90s up to the modern, fully social shopping experience. A modern e-commerce site is increasingly social, optimized for all kinds of browsing devices, has a rating system, and makes it fast and easy to purchase. Let’s sketch the comparative analysis of the website of Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Costco based on the basic components that an ecommerce must have.
E. Blog
Under Amazon associates, Amazon offers wide range of blogging. Anyone in here can posts their experience with Amazon or can share, review products that help others to make ample decision. Like its popularity in the web, Amazon is also popular in the social networking sites, blogs, and also in the customer reviews. It’s not possible to please everyone, but most of the customer reviews of Amazon are positive. Amazon has 8,247,518 likes in its Facebook page and 311,861 followers in Twitter with 1,041 tweets. In addition, it has lot of videos uploaded in the YouTube. Wal-Mart has their insider news and views page that reflects company’s present situation. Wal-Mart has both positive and negative feedback and has 18,717,089 likes in its Facebook page and 235,805 followers in Twitter with 35,755 tweets. It has number of videos in YouTube. Costco has much positive feedback than Wal-Mart. It has a blog operated by the consumers who share and discuss prices and promotions. Most of them are true and helpful. Costco’s twitter has 7,991 followers and Facebook has 796,992 likes.

Why do I choose Amazon compare to Wal-Mart and Costco?
The main reason I choose Amazon compare to Wal-Mart and Costco is that the Amazon can offer much lower price for any similar kind of product. Since they don’t have physical storefront presence and overhead, they can pass the savings directly to the shoppers. By 2017, e-commerce will gain more ground compare to any other segment of the retail industry with a compound annual growth rate of 11% each year. No doubt Amazon is the leader in the e-commerce industry. Everyone including Wal-Mart or Costco more or less is copycatting some of the Amazon’s most successful tactics. Customers are loyal to the Amazon for lot of good reason. Amazon has geared up with convenience, price, sales, and good customer service which are a powerful combination.