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Article: Globalization and reform of the world trade organization

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Canadian Journal of Public Health
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July 1, 2001
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Globalization invokes oddly linked images. On the right, a hundred thousand persons each day sit before computer screens and play the planet's biggest gambling game, exchanging $1.5 trillion every 24 hours to see who will be able to accumulate the most "virtual money." On the left, protesters discuss strategies using the latest cellular technologies and launch global lobbying strategies across the internet in efforts to restrain the actions of traders increasingly detached from the real world of their effects. In the middle, poor trading nations send one or two negotiators and wealthy nations send one or two hundred to sit around a table and work out the rules by which global free trade in ...

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