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    Repiglican Roast

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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Friday, July 28, 2006

    The Globalization of Poverty

    [...]policies of economic globalization such as free trade, financial
    liberalization, deregulation, reduced government spending, and
    privatization concentrate wealth at the top, removing from governments
    and communities the very tools needed to ensure equity and to protect
    workers, social services, the environment, and sustainable livelihoods.
    In this way, economic globalization and its institutions—including the
    International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade
    Organization, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, have created
    the most dramatic increase in global inequality—both within and between
    nations—in modern history and have increased global poverty.
    [...]

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