Answer:
Globalization has had effects on different issues of society, especially
in policy and policy-making. Policy-making in this era, i.e. the era of globalization,
is different when comparing it with policy-making of other era. It needs policy
makers to manage the situation well and look globally instead of thinking just
locally. On this basis, the aim of this paper is to study globalization in general
and its impacts on the national policy agenda first; then, some global context that
has an important role in national policy-making, such as environment, poverty and
population growth, aids, drugs, trade and industry, privatization and terrorism, is
studied.Policy-making is an extremely analytical and political process which involves
a complex set of forces. It begins with the ideas people or interest groups have
about the actions they want the government to take. In other words, these are the
demands or proposals made by interest groups or by other actors upon the political
system for action or inaction on some perceived problems. Public policies are being
conditioned everywhere by the external environment [19, p. 95-96]. It is impossible
to separate the external environmental factors, as they invariably influence the
political processes and policy outcomes. The influence, being brought to bear on
socio-economic problems of a country by agencies (WHO, ILO, UNEP, UNDP,
etc.), the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Policy
Forum, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and
the European Central Bank, etc., is of critical importance in shaping its policies.