... in countries that do not give workers rights to organise. For example, a woman who sows a $200 Liz Claiborne jacket sown in El Salvador is paid just 74 cents - less than half of one per cent. In the US, the labour cost to sew a garment is typically 10 per cent of the retail price. Workers in poor countries may have to work ... the four corners of the globe, so more and more mobile people are enjoying the prospect of joining inter-continental demonstrations. 12 million children die of preventable diseases each year half of whom die of malnutrition. UNICEF, 1998 Jubilee have called for th...

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... underway. Most of the countries involved were in the developing or transition worlds, an exception being the collapse of an important hedge fund in the United States in the second half of 1998 which directly threatened international financial markets and forced the Federal Reserve to intervene to prevent a global meltdown. Therefore, the focus of this analysis will be pinpointed towards the ... ...

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