What are Multinational corporation?

Multinational Corporations are companies who trade or have offices in more than one country, examples would be CocaCola, Microsoft, McDonalds, Barclays Bank, Rio Tinto Zinc, etc.

Multinationals began to develop more and more from the 1950's and some are more wealthy and powerful than small countries. Many view them as problems for the world because there is no overarching legal or environmental framework which can regulate their operation or indeed tax them properly and they have become too powerful. The challenge of the next decades will be for humanity to address this issue.