It doesn't seem to have worked out too well for the poor so far.
Really? I’m not a huge fan of globalization, but it’s hard to deny that it has raised the standard of living for the global poor. Look at China now vs China 40 years ago. They “globalized” by allowing more developed countries to exploit their cheap labor, and they’re much richer now than they were.
But they had a very controlled, strategic form of globalization, placing strict limits on foreign corporations. It bears little resemblance to the "open your markets and hope for the best" approach of much of the west.
A 9/9/6 working regime is hardly an improvement for a country that claims to be communist.