Intensely criticized in the U.S. these days, the practice offers a wide range of potential benefits to people around the worldA tantalizing hope, an alluring vision, is taking shape in the global economy. After decades of disappointing economic development strategies pushed by the major industrial nations, including import-substitution policies and recycling petrodollars, prospects for sustained gains in incomes and material wealth are improving for much of the developing world.In the vanguard of the movement for better living standards in the developing world is an unlikely institution, one held in opprobrium in much of the world: multinational corporations. These giants are aggressively harnessing the Information Revolution to forge strong links between rich and poor nations. Their ability to offer better wages and jobs are putting pressure on emerging-market governments to pursue liberal economic policies, especially spending more on education and maintaining open borders with the outside world for trade and foreign investment. A very nice article.
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