3 Mega-Trends Expected to Impact Our Future

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A new globalization report discusses three mega-trends expected to impact our future.  Globalization has impacted people and communities across the globe and has significantly influenced sustainable development. 

Fueled by fast-paced changes in technology and the increased mobility of goods, services, capital and labour, over the past decades globalization has greatly changed economies, societies and the natural environment and has made our world more interconnected than ever before.

Discover the 3 mega-trends expected to impact our future relative to globalization.

Small Businesses Make a World of a Difference

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In the United States we have Small Business Saturday, the Saturday after US Thanksgiving during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year, where people are encouraged to shop local.

In April, the UN General Assembly marked June 27, 2017 as a global day for the celebration of small and micro enterprises, recognizing the significant contribution this sector makes to its global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

To support local vendors ...

“Each and every one of you should go to three small businesses today and spend a minimum of $10 dollars,” he [Victorian Small Business Minister Philip Dalidakis] suggested. 

The reason [the UN] have got it right here is because small businesses do make a world of difference,” he [Dalidakis] said.

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