Globalization

Millennium Development Goal 8 is to Develop a Global Partnership for Development
This goal has six different targets, so I am not going to list them here. You can read them here.

Wikipedia defines globalization as "the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture."


Globalization has some positive effects and some negative effects. 
For example, an article about child marriage in Daily News Egypt told the story about a kind of child-marriage in which teenage girls are married off to wealthy business men for a period of time in exchange for money. 
"Abeer Ali is a project coordinator at Al Fostat Association, an NGO working on women’s empowerment and endangered children.

She says, 'the families who orchestrate deal marriage don’t even know they are selling their daughters, they think they are insuring their future by making them marry rich Arabs who spend around EGP 50,000 on such marriage (buying gold, clothes and feeding the girl). What they don’t know is that [sic] the invalidity of the marriage Islamically and legally.'"

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2012/12/05/under-reported-and-underage-early-marriage-in-egypt/

This would not happen if not for globalization. If there wasn't globalization there wouldn't be so many extremely wealthy Arabs and there might not be such a connection between Arabs and Egyptians. This is one way in which globalization and wealth has affected Egypt in a negative way.

Another way in which globalization effects economies is that it messes up the traditional, sustainable market in which people have provided for their basic needs themselves. Because of globalization, countries start using land and labor for cash crops instead of for the variety of things which have traditionally sustained them. Trying to live in the developed world with a developing infrastructure and a traditional culture is hard.

According to Tom Friedman, author of The World is Flat, Egypt would be at the 2.0 level of globalization, which is globalization of businesses from the country in other countries, and businesses of other countries in the country. 3.0 is globalization of individual people, which is starting in Egypt. According to the International Telecommunications Union, internet penetration in Egypt in 2012 was at 44.1%

Globalization Stats in Egypt:

In 2009, 23.4% of Egyptians were internet users, according to the OpenNet Initiative.

In 2007, Egypt was ranked 91 out of 181 on the Digital Opportunity Index

Here is a map of the globalization of countries throughout the world, according to the KOF Index of Globalization. Egypt was ranked 46.0 in 2011.

Here is a tour of different sites in Egypt in Google Earth in which I talk about Millennial Development Goal 8.