MNCs often prompting government to enact policies that benefit business, rather than protecting the rights of local people. Next lead to exploitation of the local labor force, and resources. In addition to the uneven distribution of benefits that often occurs, critics also point to the ways that resources are diverted from the local population into foreign exports. Finally, economic globalization may result in unequal economic relations of dependency. Thus, dependent relations that were formed in the colonial period continue on today can call imperialism.