WTO ROUND CONFERENCE
May 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWEIT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world's poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers. The European Union is a lucrative market. Remove all tariffs, allow the poor farmers to sell to the EU and you help alleviate poverty.The poorest people in developing nations are typically small-scale farmers earning just US$2 a day. Market access is a key component in sustainable development. And since tariffs are ...
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