Who has benefited from globalisation and who has not?

TNCs are the main group that benefit from globalisation. They can command lower wages from their workers through outsourcing as they find cheap labour in LICs, can avoid tax payments and gain access to cheap resources while not having to maintain strict environmental and working conditions. Through this, however, labourers in the origin country lose out as the number of job positions remaining for them is reduced and they cannot demand higher wages when the TNCs are easily able to access cheap labour from abroad.
Some people in poorer target countries where TNCs outsource their manufacturing production benefit from the new employment opportunities introduced by these foreign countries. This however, is normally only the (sub-)urban populations - where the companies are based - meaning that these countries can experience growing income disparity as the poorer, rural citizens do not have the same opportunities and may be outcompeted by these larger companies and larger producers who have attracted foreign investment.

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