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The Power of Corporations

  157 of the top 200 economic entities are corporations   —    Global Justice Now Four global corporations — Chevron, Exxon, BP, and Shell are responsible for more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions                           —   The Guardian in 2019 Adidas supplier factories still had “excessive working hours and extremely low wages” in 2010                                                                               —    China Labour Watch Around two-thirds agree that the government had benefited large banks, financial institutions, large corporations, and wealthy people, and the rest of the population had benefited “not too much or not at all.”                          —    Pew Research Centre                                        -------------------------------------------------- The revenues of the world’s 200 largest corporations were equivalent to 47.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Walmart exceeds Spain an