In some places, globalization has helped to create a middle class, narrow income inequality, and provide new economic opportunities.
In some places, globalization has helped to create a middle class, narrow income inequality, and provide new economic opportunities. But this is not always so. While globalization can increase the standard of living in developing countries, it can negatively affect local or emerging economies and individual workers. The average worker in Bangladesh earns less in a month than an American worker earns in a day. Further, globalization has been criticized for the practice of labor exploitation in countries with little protection against such practices.