These institutions play essential roles in a global economy and they are changing to meet the changing times. In the minds of critics, trade and the poor have become linked in a causal relationship. All would be right with the world, they insist, if everyone just stopped making things and buying and selling them around the world. The idea that poor nations and their citizens would be better off isolated from the taint of global commerce is preposterous and perpetuated mainly by those who have grown up in affluence. This process of globalization is not without pain.
Nothing is cost-free.
But the truth is that trade is the best hope the poor have. Click here to read more of Congressman Jackson's Issues and Positions.