TRADE DEVELOPMENT
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADE liberalisation is not enriching the world's poor, claims a new UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, with increased exports not necessarily boosted local consumption. Bangladesh, Guinea and Uganda were the only least developed countries where this happened in the 1990s. Elsewhere imports harmed local producers and exports were narrowly focused. * http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Webflyer.asp?intItemID=1397&docID=4810
TRADE liberalisation is not enriching the world's poor, claims a new UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, with increased exports not necessarily boosted local consumption. Bangladesh, Guinea and Uganda were the only least developed countries where this happened in the 1990s. Elsewhere imports harmed local producers and exports were narrowly focused. * http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Webflyer.asp?intItemID=1397&docID=4810
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