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Unit Four After Listening the virtues of free trade make the products at which they are best and import those they are less good at no longer benefit from it high-end, high-tech goods Text A Content Questions: Pair Work: Because he feels he is completely international. What he means is that if one has a network of friends and enjoys what one is doing, one can function well anywhere in the world. It refers to a member of the international business elite who treks each year to the Swiss Alpine town of Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. The issues include everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global supply of oil and the implication of nanotechnology. They all believe that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, is both welcome and unstoppable. They see the world increasingly as one vast, international marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services. He describes Davos Man as an emerging global superspecies and a threat. Yes, global trade has been around for centuries. In the past, the corporations and countries that benefited from global trade were largely content to treat vast parts of the world as places to mine natural resources or sell finished products. It predicted that four economies – Russia, Brazil, India and China – will become a much larger force in the world economy than widely expected, based on projections of demographics and economic growth, with China potentially overtaking Germany this decade. By 2050, these four newcomers will likely have displaced all but the US and Japan from the top six economies in the world. It refers to low-paid migrant workers from Asia and elsewhere who are increasingly providing key services around the world. Unlike Davos Man, Manila Woman is strongly patriotic. Because he thinks that there are still too many barriers to cross-border business in