What can one make of the concept of linkage today? Business groups are the most relevant of the groups linking domestic markets to the world economy. These will have an important voice over government policy-making, and are likely to use their political clout to push governments into opening the economy and adopt globalization-friendly policy stances. They are also more likely to advocate the payments of debts incurred with external debtors and, in general, to acquiesce to international demands for economic and political reform that will improve the country's image among the developed country constituents Another source of linkage is that of technocrats at senior levels of government. Few are the high-level developing country technocrats nowadays who have not worked or studied in the United States or Europe, leading to their forming an ideological consensus very much attuned to that of their counterparts in the developed nations.