36. The process of “downward levelling” or the “race to the bottom” in which generally poor countries vie among themselves to attract foreign direct investment by the lowering of social protections, ultimately does not enhance the protection of fundamental human rights. / See, Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up, 1995.

The poor, in order to obtain food, exert themselves to gratify those fancies of the rich, and to obtain it more certainly they vie with one another in the cheapness and perfection of their work.