Abstract
Opponents of free trade argue that in today’s global economy, unfettered access to foreign capital, technology, and goods primarily benefits a well-connected and highly skilled elite, to the exclusion of the poor, voiceless majority. Are the rich getting richer at the expense of the poorer?
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Fields, G.S., Cichello, P.L., Freije, S., Menéndez, M., Newhouse, D. (2003). Escaping from Poverty: Household Income Dynamics in Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela. In: Fields, G.S., Pfeffermann, G. (eds) Pathways Out of Poverty. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0009-3_2
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