Will globalisation reduce poverty and spread democracy, as US President George Bush says it will?When urging leaders of the Western Hemisphere gathered at Quebec to adopt a Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement, Bush claimed:”We seek freedom … Free and open trade creates new jobs and new income. It lifts the lives of all our people, applying the power of markets to the needs of the poor. Open trade reinforces the habit of liberty.”While the US President was pleading the case for what he de…
