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For China’s effort to make Internet giants like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft kowtow to its domestic political controls, and its push in Africa and Latin America to create blocs of nations that pursue economic development while ignoring human rights and environmental conservation, is a poor model for the developing world.
The impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on many developing nations’ labor markets is a case in point.
With technological breakthroughs in electronic communication and increasing bandwidth, many jobs that were done in industrialized nations, but that did not require face-to-face interaction, can now be moved to poorer countries, which have cheap labor, an educated workforce, and high rates of computer literacy.
Poor nations look to these facts and trends with hope, while many industrialized countries view them with anxiety.
Indeed, the two combine to produce a neatly perverse analysis: globalization is bad because it gives our race’s jobs to other races in developing nations.
Opposition to BPO from rich countries has nothing to do with international labor standards, which deal with the poorest workers in poor nations.
Unskilled laborers in poor nations do the kind of work that virtually no one in a developed country will do.
So there is no conflict of interest with the poorest workers in developing nations because they do not compete for the same types of jobs.
But at higher skill levels, BPO does create a conflict of interest between workers in rich and poor nations.
But this has nothing to do with the movement of back-office work to poor nations.
After the devastation of World War II, many of the region’s nations recovered sovereignty through large-scale ethnic cleansing.
Like people, nations that deceive themselves are consigned to a future of uncertainty and instability.
By the time he published The Wealth of Nations, at age 43, Smith had become the first complexity scientist.
But how long and deep will this recession be, and how badly will it affect emerging and developing nations?
First, it would force the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to choose between China and the US, a decision that all of them would prefer to avoid.
That first war among socialist states shattered the myth of inviolable “fraternal” bonds between the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Eastern Europe.
Those nations that rejected Che’s mythology and chose the path of democracy and the free market, such as Brazil, Peru, and Chile, are better off than they ever were: equality, freedom, and economic progress have advanced in unity.
By contrast, those nations that remain nostalgic for the cause of Che, such as Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, are at this very moment poised on the brink of civil war.
Russia’s approach to international affairs has long centered on respect for national interests and sovereignty, and the belief that all peoples and nations should have the freedom to make their own political, economic, and cultural choices.
Of course, some nations do better: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg all exceed the United Nations target of allocating the equivalent of 0.7% of gross national income in foreign aid.
Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations.
Nearly nine years ago, at the Millennium Development Summit in New York, the leaders of 180 countries, including all the major affluent nations, promised that by 2015 they would together achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Since that meeting in 2000, the commitments made by most nations have fallen short of what is required, and 2015 is now only six years away.
The American political scientist Andrew Moravcsik makes the similar argument that European nations, singly and collectively, are the only states other than the US that are able to “exert global influence across the full spectrum from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ power.
Healthy nations use that room to bury the pain of the past, if not the past itself.
As in the past, the effectiveness of these initiatives ultimately will depend on whether these impulses reach Europe and Japan, as well as emerging nations like China and Brazil.
France remains a major European country: it is a founder of the Union, one of the world's richest nations, and holds a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
The V-20 group of finance ministers of vulnerable nations recently committed to introducing carbon-pricing mechanisms across 43 markets within ten years.
Language delivered a fundamental breakthrough in the life of nations.
The clearest sign comes from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Myanmar is a member.
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