strategy
Increasing general public mobility
Synonyms:
Promoting basic population mobilitySupporting global mobility
Globalizing population movements
Liberalizing free movement of people
Description:
The demographic shift that has not been considered or allowed, because of its political sensitivity, is the globalization of population movements. The free movement of capital is now seen as normal, and the uninhibited free trade in goods and services is the goal of governments through the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, genuine globalization should also imply a third condition: that all people should be able to move freely to live and work wherever they like. This is the one change that would allow optimization of the population to environmental carrying capacity, and a rapid reduction in the economic and social disparities between countries that are so destabilizing at present. Efforts in the European Union to eliminate barriers to internal population movements are a precursor of what will be required. Broader:
Increasing mobilitySupporting geographic distributionMobilizing necessary human resourcesAbolishing unethical practices concerning movement of people Narrower:
Facilitating free movement of scientists Subjects:
Government → PublicSociology → Population
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
