Falling off the Edge

This is an exhilarating journey to some of the planet`s remotest and most dangerous places to explore the sharp end of globalization.Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations a ...

This is an exhilarating journey to some of the planet`s remotest and most dangerous places to explore the sharp end of globalization.Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that`s not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end - and it`s not pretty.Whether it`s Shenzen, China`s boom city where sweatshops pay u