The modern democratic power architecture, with all the shortcomings and drawbacks inherent to it, ensures a seamless feedback and an effective dialogue between the government and people. In recent years, we have enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity that has naturally given way to increasing demands for better distribution of the benefits. This is logical and welcome. Nevertheless, we should not forget that only growth can bring prosperity to all and, therefore, measures that restrict growth need to be avoided. I distrust movements against globalisation as they are usually movements for protectionism which harms the poor.
Globalisation is a force for economic growth and job creation, given the right economic policies.
It also increases the risk associated with bad policies and, hopefully, therefore limits their frequency of occurrence and scope. Under the conditions of democracy, direct action should not be regarded as morally justified. Undoubtedly, host countries should take tougher measures to enforce law and order, thus ensuring favourable working conditions to accommodate the delegates. One is that globalisation benefits only the rich countries and large corporations. However, recent studies demonstrate with significant empirical evidence the high correlation between per capita income growth and the degree of trade openness.