Debate Topics - Multinationals

For Multinationals
Offers employment to local workers
Promotes peace internationally
Creates sense of community crossing international borders
Allows entire world to improve standard of living
Gives access to quality products regardless of location
Promotes economic stability
Raises standard of living for regions involved in production
Gives local economies new economic opportunities
Fact of life which needs to be accepted
Reflects global economy

Against Multinationals
Ruins local economies
Depletes local work forces by drawing to metro centres
Stifles cultural growth and expansion on local level
Provides little help with problems which are local in nature
Creates cultural homogenization
Too big, little interest in the individual
Gives political power to outside interests
Creates economic unstability by being subject to the whims of the global economy
Replaces traditional values with materialistic values
Makes local economies subject to mass layoffs