RACETOTHEBOTTOM

Race to the bottom

The race to the bottom is a socio-economic term used to describe a relationship between countries, states, provinces or territories that is an outcome of globalization, free trade, neoliberalism or economic deregulation. The relationship is posited to occur when competition increases between geographic areas over a particular sector of trade and production and when governments are given increased incentive to cut business regulations, labor standards, environmental laws and business taxes.

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