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Evidence is accumulating that the benefits of Asian ‘development’ flow disproportionately to TNEs and their elite class-mates, while the burdens are shouldered largely by nonelites. Unequal exchange between elites and nonelites suggests that the former become established largely because the latter are not — and vice-versa. The skewed distribution of development costs and benefits has aggravated the inequalities already existing in Asian countries. In turn, it has prompted protest against Global Establishment elites, particularly TNEs, by nonelites.
Foreign investment ... makes it possible to more equitably distribute Indonesia’s inherent wealth.
(Investment Coordinating Board of Indonesia. 1983:5)
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Kowalewski, D. (1997). Confrontation. In: Global Establishment. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25211-4_12
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