Uma heresia

"Forcing a developing economy to open itself up to imported products that would compete with those produced by certain of its industries, industries that were dangerously vulnerable to competition from much stronger counterpart industries in other countries, can have disastrous consequences - socially and economically. Jobs have systematically been destroyed - poor farmers in developing countries simply could not compete with the highly subsidized goods from America and Europe - before the countries' industral and agricultural sectors were able to grow strong and create new jobs."

Joseph Stiglitz, "Globalization and its Discontents", Penguin Books, 2002, p. 17.