7.Appendix:
7.a Tables:
Table 1.1 select sales of multinational corporations 2004 (in US$)
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Wal-Mart Stores $288 billion
Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) 269 billion
General Motors (US) 194 billion
Daimler Chrysler(Germany/US) 177 billion
Toyota(Japan) 173 billion
General Electric (US) 153 billion
Total (France) 153 billion
IBM 96 billion
Siemens(Germany) 92 billion
Nestle(Switzerland) 70 billion
Sonny (Japan) 67 billion
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Source; ‘’The Fortune Global 500’’, Fortune in Nye J S Jr 2007,p. 8
These selection of large Multinational corporations is to depict two things; firstly that these multinational corporations have annual sales that are larger than the GDP of more than Half of the states in the world and all the states in sub Saharan Africa richer and secondly that though they are non state actors and lack some types of power such as military, their role and influence in making wars and bringing about political change within states cannot be undermind.
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