Loondog I agree with some of the other editors who say this article needs a lot of work and the points you are mentioning reflect that to some degree as they are not put very well But I think you have misread this section at least in part If lower food prices result from subsidies in rich countries i e the US and EU then farmers in poorer countries can not get the true market price The key point the article alludes to is that the lower prices are caused by subsidies not efficiency That is why countries like Brazil have brought WTO complaints against US cotton export subsidies Last I heard the US had lost the case but was refusing to comply until the Doha Round was completed I am not sure if this is still correct on compliance but I think it is I m not sure I would say exploitation by multinational corporations is necessarily a question of the wages they pay The work or starve choice is one that is only faced by those without capital therefore agreements between owners and non owners of capital are not truly voluntary This unequal bargaining power may be considered the basis of exploitation However it is not exploitation by any given employer such as a foreign multinational but a systemic exploitation I think this is what underlies the discussion of low wages per se as a problem but it is not very clearly put IMO From a Keynesian point of view transferring jobs from group A to group B where group B has a lower salary simply reduces global consumption because it means that income has been transferred not only to group B but also to their employer who with a higher income has a lower propensity to consume So yes you help create a middle class in India while hurting it in say the US but the overall result is not a good one This section of the article is based on a 1986 journal article which is an ancient citation in this context another problem I have with the section besides being unclear