ANP 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Structural Adjustment, Walmart, Offshoring
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Government must reign in the excesses of capitalism. Government must be able to control the free market completely. Free markets must be able to implement the legal structures needed to succeed. All citizens must be able to decide what the free market can and cannot do. School enrollments have more than doubled across the globe. Infant mortality rates have dropped by more than 60 percent. A reduction in poverty has meant fewer than one million people across the globe go hungry each day. Life expectancy in the past century has risen by 50 percent to 78 years. Infant mortality rates have dropped by more than 60 percent: currently, the world is consuming natural resources at double the rate required to maintain sustainable levels. The human ecological footprint is too large: in the past several decades, many companies have made effective use of flexible accumulation the strategy used by transnational corporations to maximize profits.
