Self-interested elites become more prominent. Vulnerability and fraud increase. International law enforcement is starved of resources. Governments, determined to be self-sufficient, do not cooperate with the WTO and are locked into outdated trade practices. They continue to depend excessively on outdated technologies and on hierarchical management, and fall further behind.
Exports slow down.
It becomes clear that companies had failed to develop new markets. Most people in developing countries are therefore excluded. The exchange of information from village to city to the global level, and back, is hesitant and hardly listened to. After some years of this divisive scenario, the WTO's OECD members propose a new agreement on trade-related intellectual property issues. The developing countries, with a few exceptions, do not have a clear alternate strategy.