Globalization is accelerating with pace and scale and enables access to new markets and ideas that enhance the welfare of people but it does have negative effects and uneven development in many parts of the world. The essay will discuss in detail the uneven development as the hallmark of the geography of capitalism and the differences it creates between the core and the periphery countries. What is globalization? Jagdish N. Bhagwati (2004) in In Defence of Globalization explains globalization to be a process in which economies, societies and cultures integrate through exchanging information, ideas via transportation and trade and form a single world society. Sheila L. Croucher (2004) in her book Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in Changing World explain global interaction is achieved through stretching of social, economic and political activities across regions, country borders and continents (10-17).

Shehzad Nadeem (2009) in his article Macaulay’s (Cyber) Children writes that globalization has sown a seed of desire in an individual to increase one’s standard of living and enjoy foreign products and adopt new technology(102- 122). This resulted in an uneven development as a lot of people living in third world countries wish to migrate to core countries to earn money to afford lavish lifestyle. Those who cannot afford the luxuries of life get into theft and vandalism to destroy those who enjoy the facilities and this is one of the disadvantages of globalization.

Core or industrialized countries are financially stable in which countries in the Northern Hemisphere can be included such as Canada, USA and Western European countries such as New Zealand, Japan and Australia. These countries are also called developed countries in which the Gross Domestic Product exceeds 8,200 per capita (1). These countries are progressing because of the continued improvement due to economic growth. Peripheral countries are regions that have unfavourable trade relationship, out-of-date technologies and undeveloped economies with low levels of productivity. Economic globalization has brought many social problems with it such as poverty in poor countries and is affecting the environment around the world.