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the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike. The WTO is an organisation set up to
work towards removing those trade barriers. Therefore, it is argued, people really concerned about the
plight of the third world should actually be encouraging free trade, rather than attempting to fight it.
Conclusion—Critics have asserted that people from poor countries (the Third World) have been
relatively accepting and supportive of globalization while the strongest opposition to globalization has
come from wealthy “First World” activists, unions and NGOs. Anti-globalization movement has failed
to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its
“strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from
employment they were trying to secure.”

Lesson 27
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