GLOBALISATION: WHAT PEOPLE THINK

Big business has become more globalised over recent decades, ongoing challenges with immigration, public opinion has shifted, and is
expanding into new territories, buying up local companies and, as a set to disrupt the ideology that a globalised world is a force for good.
result, has increased trade and cultural exchange around the world. But Using a recent survey from YouGov of more than 20,000 people across 19
globalisation is starting to face some resistance. Through a resurgence countries, this infographic explores how globalisation is viewed around the
in populist political movements, a rise of economic nationalism and world and the possible reasons for these differing attitudes

IS GLOBALISATION A FORCE FOR GOOD OR BAD FOR THE WORLD? VIEWS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IS IT ACCEPTABLE FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS TO BUY VIEWS ON IMMIGRATION
Acceptable Unacceptable Dont know Its fine for my country to My country should be able to meet Dont know
COMPANIES IN YOUR COUNTRY? Immigration is enriching and Immigration is eroding Immigration has little Dont know
import things it needs from all its own needs without relying on adding to the traditional the traditional culture of effect on the traditional
other countries imports from other countries Acceptable Unacceptable Dont know culture of my country my country culture of my country

UK
According to a survey by the Denmark imported $85.2 The growing anti-
European Commission, 40 per billion-worth of goods in globalisation movement in
cent of French citizens believe 2016; its top imports are France has tracked the rising
France globalisation is machinery and electronic popularity of Marine Le Pens
According to the Office for
not an opportunity for equipment, collectively Front National party, whose
National Statistics, 1.1 per
economic growth accounting for almost a central message is to keep
cent of businesses in the
quarter of total imports France for the French
Finland UK are owned by foreign
companies. However, for
large business that employ
more than 250 people, the
Denmark
rate of foreign ownership is
27 per cent, and is widely
prevalent in the mining and quarrying
sectors
Norway

Sweden

Positive attitudes to
globalisation in city states
Germany such as Hong Kong and
Singapore are unsurprising, Immigration has been one of
given their lack of ability to the most contentious issues
Indonesia has one of the
be completely self-sufficient in German politics over
Australia lowest trade-to-GDP ratios
recent years due to the large
in the world, at just 37 per
influx of asylum seekers and
cent, according to the World
refugees from North Africa
Bank
Hong Kong and the Middle East, with
Hong Kong is the fourth- Chancellor Angela Merkel
largest recipient of foreign facing mounting criticism
direct investment in the world, over her open-door policy
Indonesia
behind the United States,
UK and China; attractions
include its strategic position,
Malaysia status as a free port and
simplified tax system
The Philippines had one
of the most optimistic
Philippines
outlooks on the impact of
immigration among the
As the 15th-largest importer
regions surveyed, which
in the world, international
Singapore could reflect its long history
trade plays an important
of colonial rule and strategic
part in Singapores economy
Despite the United States location as a transit point in
due to its strategic location
Thailand being home to some of South-East Asia
; according to the World
the biggest multinational
Bank, the country has the
companies in the world, this
third-highest trade-to-GDP
mixed response could reflect
Vietnam ratio after Luxembourg and
the surprising popularity
Hong Kong, at 318 per cent
of Donald Trump last year, According to the United
whose foremost policy theme Nations, the UAE is the ninth-
United States in his election campaign largest recipient of foreign
was a retreat from decades direct investment in Asia;
of globalisation. Since the its main investors are the
election, Trump has rallied UK, Japan and Hong Kong,
India
against existing trade agreements, drawn by the absence of
threatened tariffs on US firms investing overseas and
pledged to build a wall to neighbouring Mexico to keep out direction business taxation.
migrants
In recent years, the UAEs
United Arab
Emirates political and economic
stability has attracted
Saudi
Arabia investors fleeing the Arab
Spring

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Data by YouGov, November 2016; analysis by Raconteur