New multinational corporations opened factories and employed workers in impoverished areas of the world beginning in the 1960s, but they brought little wealth to such countries. Why?
A) The corporations paid their workers low wages, and company profits mostly went to the shareholders, who usually lived in wealthier countries.
B) Too few jobs were created to make much difference in these countries' economies.
C) Multinational corporations demanded tax breaks that negated the economic benefits for the countries to which they moved their operations.
D) Continuing unrest and government instability kept workers from putting their earnings back into the local economy.
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