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Gatekeepers: people or corporations who control access to information
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Globalization: The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale impact. The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales.
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horizontal integration: Ownership by the same firm of a number of companies that exist at the same point on a commodity chain.
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Local exchange trading system: a barter system whereby a local currency is created through which members trade services or goods in a local network seperated from the formal economy
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Participatory development: the notion that locals should be engaged in deciding what development means for them and how it should be achieved
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Synergy: The cross-promotion of vertically-integrated goods
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Vertical integration: Ownership by the same firm of a number of companies that exist along a variety of points of a commodity chain
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Washington Consensus networks: Label used to refer to the following fundamental principles of free trade: that free trade raises the well-being of all countries by introducing them to devote their resource to production of those goods they produce relatively to most efficiently/ and that competition through trade raises a country's long -term growth rate by expanding access to global technologies and promoting innovation
