Why does it appear that globalization is actually a bad thing?
Economic globalization is a surprisingly controversial process. Surprising, that is, to the many economists and policy makers who believe it is the best means of bringing prosperity to the largest number of people all around the world. Proponents of economic globalization have had a tendency to conclude that dissent and criticism is the result of ignorance or vested interest. They have argued that anti-sweatshop campaigners do not understand that conditions in the factories owned by multi-nationals tend to be better than those in comparable domestic firms; that environmentalists are denying the world’s poor of the right to develop freely; and unionists in developed countries are protecting their interests at the expense of the workers in poorer parts of the world. ========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/1444930.stm The leaders of the world’s most industrialised countries are meeting in Genoa t
