FISH QUALITY INITIATIVE
March 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLWITH the World Trade Organisation in the midst of key negotiations to update its agriculture agreement, Geneva diplomats are often stressing the raison d'etre of the WTO Doha Development Round, namely that commerce helps the poor.The idea is that by ripping down bureaucratic hurdles, duties and restrictive quotas for goods that developing countries produce in abundance - such as food - the WTO will provide their entrepreneurs with an opportunity to seize export earnings.Much better such independence than the often hopeless reliance on the begging ...
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