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The paper examines the globalization and world development from philosophical point of view. In the last decades the whole complex of global problems has been increased by a new danger, but the world community demonstrates its inability to react to such changes adequately. The global world, facing principally new challenges and having no adequate system of governance, fall more and more into the situation of increasing contradictions and uncertainty. The global and regional supranational organizations (G8, G20, World Trade Organization, World Bank, etc.) are built to provide cooperative efforts at the global level and they somehow manage to do it. At the same time, these organizations do not solve and are principally unable to solve the main contradiction of our time. The dialog of cultures and civilizations is the only possible way to resolve contradictions in a constructive way and to provide balanced social development both at the national and global levels. And the higher is the level of civilizational development of the interacting parties, the more productive this dialog can be. Key words: Globalization, Development, Humankind, Civilization, Dialog.