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Absolutely, and I alluded to this; the unintended side-effect of businesses seeking cheaper labour in underdevloped countries is to move capital from those businesses into those countries. Where it is a lot of money, and the country is very poor, this does indeed have a positive overall effect in terms of bringing people out of aboslute poverty. This in turn gives those people mroe stability, and has knock-on effects of better education (they can afford it), living standards, health-care etc. in those countries, which in turn reduces regional political instabilities and things like that, whilst at the same time reducing out-of-control population growth (as people become more educated and well off, the birth rate drops, partly due to decreased pressure to reproduce from infant mortality).

The flip side of this, is that already-developed countries come under pressure to reduce standards in order to compete, especially when the societal structures in those countries are based on profit-first capitalism, such as the US, and to a lesser (buit increasing) degree, the UK.

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