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Article: FINANCE-LABOR: WORLD BANK IS A WORLD APART
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- June 30, 1995
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
06-30-1995
Analysis by Jerome Levinson
WASHINGTON, June 29 (IPS) -- The World Bank's World Development
Report 1995 -- "Workers in an Integrating World" -- offers an
opportunity for the Bank to provide leadership on a central issue
facing both its borrowing and non-borrowing member countries.
How to reconcile the interests of workers in industrialized
countries and those at a lesser stage of development with the
increasing competition of countries for the same pool of investment
capital, has become a major preoccupation for global and national
policymakers.
Many believe that competition has led many countries to attract
capital by maintaining a labor ...