“Low-end globalization is globalization not as practiced by the big multinationals with their batteries of lawyers and their billion-dollar budgets,” says Mathews. “It’s globalization done by individual traders carrying goods in their suitcases back and forth from their home countries. That’s the dominant form of globalization here and that’s how globalization works for 70 percent of the world’s people.”
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In "Ghetto at the Center of the World," Chungking Mansions is a Grand Central Station and Mathews traces the passage of people and goods from the building to destinations such as Dubai, Lagos, Mombasa, Nairobi, Bangkok, and Kolkata.
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Mobile phones figure at the center of Chungking Mansions’ global trade, and Mathews estimates that up to 20 percent of the mobile phones recently in use in sub-Saharan Africa had passed through the building at some point
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