Today's global economy cannot offer economic opportunities to large numbers of people throughout the world. Many people in the Third World are searching for alternatives, actively building new organizations or strengthening traditional social structures to defend themselves from national governments intent on promoting the globalized production system. If correctly understood, this resistance can become part of a broader effort to build a more just society-a society in which those who are traditionally left out could participate in reversing environmental damage and reducing the social costs of globalization. In this article, the broad outline of an alternative strategy to promote sustainable development emerges from an analysis of the traditional path of rural development in Latin America.
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