51 of the world's 100 largest economies are corporations (not countries, as one might expect):
Royal Dutch Shell's revenues are greater than Venezuela's Gross Domestic Product.
WalMart’s revenues are bigger than Indonesia’s GDP.
General Motors is roughly the same size as Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary combined.
Since it was created in 1995, the WTO has ruled that every environmental policy it has reviewed is an illegal trade barrier that must be eliminated or changed. With one exception, the WTO has also ruled against every health or food safety law it has reviewed.
Source: www.corpwatch.org