In the context of the environment, globalization critics argue that:

QUESTION

In the context of the environment, globalization critics argue that:

A. free trade discourages firms from advanced nations to move manufacturing facilities to less developed countries.

B. adhering to labor and environmental regulations significantly increases the costs of manufacturing enterprises.

C. manufacturing enterprises are put at a competitive disadvantage by moving their production facilities to nations that do not have burdensome regulations.

D. as countries get richer, they relax their environmental and labor regulations.

E. while pollution levels are rising in the world’s richer countries, they have been falling in developing nations.

ANSWER

B
Globalization critics often argue that adhering to labor and environmental regulations significantly increases the costs of manufacturing enterprises and puts them at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace vis-à-vis firms based in developing nations that do not have to comply with such regulations