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The Wal-Mart Effect
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Mark J. Perry
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:56 PM
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--Wal-Mart's (
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) debut in a country is a bellwether for future growth. Indeed, Wal-Mart has started operations in 15 countries since 1991, and 13 of them have had boom economies, with an average of 4.4 percent annual growth since Wal-Mart arrived. Over the last five years, the economies of Wal-Mart countries outside the United States have grown 40 percent faster than the world average. So what's going on?
Does the ability to buy giant bags of Froot Loops at cut-rate prices inspire economic growth? More likely, Wal-Mart is simply a smart, cautious investor. "Wal-Mart chooses to go places with a sizable middle class," says Nelson Lichtenstein, a historian who just
published a book on Wal-Mart's rise
. And Wal-Mart's attention to middle-class growth could pay off for the company in the future. Next up for the Wal-Mart effect, Lichtenstein says: Russia and Eastern Europe.
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