Globalization increases poverty. Globalization provides opportunities that were not available before. Globalization makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, increasing the gap between them. Globalization is something new and independent of capitalism.
Globalization is nothing but imperialism with a new face and it undermines civil society.
These were some of the wildly divergent opinions on globalization expressed today during a Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue held as part of the State of the World Forum 2000, at the New York Hilton hotel. And the person moderating the discussion and trying to bring the divergent views together was Angela Glover Blackwell, President of Policy Link and a former Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. A long-time public interest lawyer who grew up in St Louis, Missouri, she graduated from the Law School, University of California, Berkeley. And how they can have a greater say in society and to share more of the benefits of development. Policy Link, the organization she heads, is trying to do precisely that.