[lbo-talk] ILO on "Free Trade"

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall at adelphia.net
Fri Nov 28 15:10:41 PST 2003


In a book that is bound to provoke the anti-globalisation community, an economist with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has challenged a range of popular concerns about the effects of globalisation.

"Contrary to popular perceptions, global income inequality is actually declining," senior economist Ajit Ghose argues in his new book, Jobs and Incomes in a Globalizing World.

Furthermore, globalisation has not fuelled migration of workers from the poor countries of the South to the rich countries of the North, Mr Ghose insists.

"The available evidence actually shows declining South-North migration during the 1990s," he tells BBC News Online. Full Story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3227278.stm



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