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TAD/1847

UNCTAD SOUNDS WARNING ON GLOBALIZATION

11 September 1997


Press Release
TAD/1847


UNCTAD SOUNDS WARNING ON GLOBALIZATION

19970911 ADVANCE RELEASE

GENEVA, 11 September (UNCTAD) -- The big story of the world economy since the early 1980s has been increasing integration through the unleashing of market forces. But there is also another story, one that is attracting increasing attention in the 1990s: social and economic divisions among, and within, countries are widening.