The Poor Like Globalization

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

According to The Poor Like Globalization, a recent Pew survey shows that “views of globalization are distinctly more positive in low-income countries than in rich ones”:

Contradicting the anti-globalization movement’s claims, Dollar says that most “striking in the survey is that views of globalization are distinctly more positive in low-income countries than in rich ones.” For example, in Sub-Saharan Africa 75% of households thought that multinational corporations had a positive influence on their country, compared to only 54% in rich countries. Of the 38,000 people in 44 nations surveyed, those in the developing world generally blamed their local governments, not globalization, for their country’s ills.

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