Western Multinationals Responsibility

Western multinationals take over responsibility In the tide of economic globalization, multinational corporations have become a crucial undertaker connecting business activities between developed countries and the third world countries. Meanwhile, in order to develop their business to more comprehensive and better, they would usually seek people or organizations to help them expanding business in third world, they are contractors or subcontractors. On the positive side, they spread advanced technologies, production experience and provide much more job opportunities for developing countries, promoting the development of local economies. On the negative side, their presence causes numerous wicked effects, such as damage to the environment,

Before they enter markets in third world countries, western multinationals have to obey and follow their home countries’ enterprise law, international commercial laws and host countries’ laws, such as Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations and Global agreement, it means that they appear legally, and they are within the establishment and development of supervisory and legal framework. In comparison, there is no doubt that violations happen in developing countries, more often than not the reason might be the dereliction of duty by local governments. Taking China as an example, China is famous for ‘’world factory’’ and “sweat factory” not only because there is a large number of cheap labour, but also for their imperfect labor laws. According to The Wall Street journal news(reference?), the world per capita salary per hour the world first is Germany, about $30; The second, about $22(which country?). While $0.8 an hour makes China the last place on the list. China's work time per capita is up to 2200 hours a year, while for United States1610 hours, for Japan 1758 hours, and the Netherlands only 1389 hours, which shows labours in China are going through a difficult time. In addition, According to the French "Le Monde" May 11, 2008 news(Reference?), according to the ILO's latest report on global child labor situation, the various regions of the world, the Asia-Pacific countries, the largest child labor, has more than 100 million.(Copy the whole sentence from the original news) By an international team found that patients in developing countries because of hospital management defects and personnel quality lower face a higher risk of death. According to them in the Middle East and Africa research 26 hospitals in eight countries, due to a series of accidents and this can prevent the poor treatment, every hospital patient deaths every day in more than one person. Scientists say many deaths from these