The impact of multinationals on Western countries may be damaging,
but their impact on the 1bird World has undoubtedly been much worse .
Critics see them as modem plunderers, exploiting natural and other
resources for their own ends. Of course, the multinationals do not see
themselves in this way. They see their activities as helping develop the
underdeveloped world amid the difficulties created by ·unfavorable
publicity about the wrongdoings of a socially irresponsible minority, by
propaganda against big business leveled by critics on the "left," and
sometimes by hostile and ungrateful foreign governments who fail to
honor contracts. Although multinationals, recognize that their activities