New Delhi, December 18:

As economies globalise and integrate with each other, little thought has been paid to its political fallouts or on the free movement of professionals across borders, prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.

“When we talk of globalisation or on a borderless world, the focus has largely been on the movement of goods, capital and, largely, financial and logistical services,” the prime minister told a seminar on globalisation here.

“There is as yet no framework for the movement of people,” he told the seminar, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) where the speakers included Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph E Stiglitz.

According to prime minister Manmohan Singh, even in a globalised world, states continue to have a very crucial role to play, especially in providing and extending basic education, public health and medical care, even as the private sector can bring prosperity to entrepreneurs and workers.