... in world trade would immediately be felt with rising unemployment throughout the trading world. The poorest countries of the world would also be affected by a fall in aid and opportunities for trade. A weakening of the institutions of the global order, such as the WTO, would leave them unequal to the task of adjudicating between nations. The fate of ... for political and economic influence through trade. And there's an atmosphere after Seattle of wondering if globalization is a force that is in some way threatened by retrograde movements Business and the international financial institutio...

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... seriously. First, the whole emphasis on the importance of international competition ignores the fact that both the U.S. economy and the economy of Western Europe are still primarily in the business of producing goods and services for their own use. Imports are only 11 percent of U.S. GDP. While it is true that a somewhat wider range of goods is subject ... work in much harsher conditions. The proper comparison, however, is not between U.S. wages and developing-country wages but between export-sector wages in developing countries and other locally available opportunities. After all, it i...

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... to manufacture goods that are enjoyed all over the world. Global commerce, it can be argued, opens new markets, encourages partnership and trade among countries, and gives developing nations the opportunities to industrialize, increase their efficiency and raise their standard of living. What we have in effect is the trickle down theory being applied on a global scale. But the deteriorating social ... their products. The corporations do not own the factories in which their products are being produced, so the contractors compete with each other for employment from multi-nationals. In any...

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