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India: Protests at G8

Thursday, June 7th, 2007 @ 17:52 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Economics, International Relations

a reader's words on the protests at the G8 venue. “Why are these people protesting? The answer is very simple- even as globalization creates islands of the first world in the malls in Shanghai and Bangalore, it is also creating a Third World-like underclass in the developed world.”

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