Sell out: The World Summit was 'booby-trapped' right from the
start, says Naomi Klein. While the direct regulation of business was kept off
the agenda, poor countries were told to open themselves up to foreign investment
through the privatisation of basic services. But the companies running these
'partnerships' can't, after Enron, be trusted to balance their books
correctly let alone provide essential services to developing countries. It's
not surprising that many 'stakeholders' ignored the official summit and
concentrated on routes more likely to lead to development: debt cancellation,
an end to the privatisation of water and electricity, reparations for apartheid
abuses, affordable housing, land reform. [No
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