Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World – Pole of SocioEconomy of Solidarity November 2001 PROJECT SUMMARY – FINAL VERSION WORKSHOP 5 - FISCAL POLICY: TAX, DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL REVENUE AND SOCIAL SECURITY
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It has been unanimously observed that the expansion of transnational firms and financial irregularities are leading to a weakening of nation-states. We subscribe to this observation provided that the differences are defined between what is happening in the central, rich and powerful countries of the North, and the peripheral, poor and/or emerging countries of the South. The largest firms and conglomerates, as well as the holders of financial securities, are located in the Northern States; and it is in the North that transnational companies and the de-regulated capital act as “ extraordinary ” reinforcement agents for their nation-states and their governments, with which they share the glory, the power and the money.
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