Steve Schifferes (BBC): Can globalisation be tamed?

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From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday February 24

Can globalisation be tamed?
Analysis
By Steve Schifferes

A new report has called for radical changes in the direction of world economic policy to overcome the negative effects of globalisation.
Major changes in trade and immigration policy are needed if the world's poor are to share in the benefits of globalisation, according to the UN-sponsored report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation.
"There a deep-seated and persistent imbalances in the current workings of the world economy, which are ethically unacceptable and politically unsustainable," the report said.
The report says that only a dozen developing countries have benefited from the increasing integration of the world economy,.

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