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Trading Up

Why globalization aids the poor

Jay Mandle

The movement that first coalesced in Seattle at the anti-World Trade Organization demonstrations last December and recurred in Washington, D.C., in opposition to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in April does not, of course, speak with one voice. It is a coalition involving unions, environmentalists, consumer groups, and religious communities, each with its own (...)


 

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Jay Mandle is the W. Branford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University. He is also director of development for Democracy Matters (www.democracymatters.org).

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