Globalization policies lead to a number of negative outcomes, including a sharp increase in unemployment in both North and South, as work is increasingly mechanized and automated, as corporate farming and biotechnology replace traditional small-scale agriculture, and as corporate activity becomes more mobile, unrestricted, opaque and unaccountable.
2. In a global economy in which countries obtain investment and jobs on the basis of their comparative advantage, the comparative advantage which poorer countries have is their poverty, the fact that they have an abundance of people working for next to nothing.