In the past twenty years the movement of , capital, ideas and people around the globe has dramatically. The of Buenos Aires in Argentina buy from Sweden, people in Sydney go for a coffee at Starbuck's and in Munich you can put your into the Royal Bank of Scotland. On there is a growing number of programmes that show us how people try to start a new life in a foreign .
Some people fear that globalisation is too much of a and that it too many problems, while politicians and businesspeople talk about the of a globalised world. The truth - as always - is not easy to find. There are winners, and there are of globalisation. One thing to be clear, though. The world in the 20th century wouldn't be so without the phenomenon called "globalisation".