Web Alert

By EMMA CHAMBERLAIN

Is globalisation good for the poor? David Dollar from the World Bank and Mark Weisbrot from the US Center for Economic and Policy Research don't agree. Hear them debate the issue at Washington DC's Cato Institute tomorrow at 4 am.

Chat with a corporate giant: General Electric CEO turned author Jack Welch will be at America Online tomorrow at 11 am to talk about his new autobiography 'Jack: Straight From the Gut'. Named one of the world's most respected CEOs in a Financial Times poll, Welch is said to have pulled "GE from nothing, turned it upside down and made it into what it is today".

Talk to Ben Folds: Catch the former frontman from the Ben Folds Five at Lycos tomorrow at 11 am. Folds - the man not the trio (yes the 'Five' were actually the 'Three') - has just released his solo debut 'Rockin' the Suburbs' on which he played nearly all the instruments.

Globalisation chat

America Online (for Jack Welch)

Ben Folds

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