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28 February 2003 (UK) morePlot:
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture. | add synopsisAwards:
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(Credited cast) | Belinda Becker | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Buju Banton | ... | Himself - Singer |
| Horst Köhler | ... | Himself - Director, International Monetary Fund (archive footage) (as Horst Kohler) |
| Michael Manley | ... | Himself - Former Prime Minister of Jamaica |
| Stanley Fischer | ... | Himself - Deputy Director International Monetary Fund |
| Michael Witter | ... | Himself - Professor of Economics, University of West Indies (as Dr. Michael Witter) |
| David Coore | ... | Himself - Former Minister of Finance, Jamaica |
 | Bill Clinton | ... | Himself - President of the United States (archive footage) |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... | Himself - President, Haiti |
| Yami Bolo | ... | Himself - Singer |
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 | Kathy Owen | ... | News Anchor |
| Jerry J. Rawlings | ... | Himself - Former President, Ghana (archive footage) (as Jerry Rawlings) |
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This documentary perfectly captures the largely-ignored downside to globalization and the subsequent domination of the world economy by the U.S. and Western Europe. Namely, that undeveloped and developing countries continue to get poorer at the expense of the rich. This documentary presents the human side for discussions about the impact of multinational corporations on human rights abuses, price fixing in order to drive local competition into failure, environmental destruction as the result of World Bank-mandated "structural adjustments," etc. This is a must see for anyone who thinks that globalization is the only way for developing countries to compete with the rest of the world, and for anyone wanting to know the reasons behind all of those protests.