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The Knowledge Commons Indo-Us Knowledge Initiative Small Scale Agricuture Markets, Trade, WTO Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?KICS
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Although much is at stake at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Hong Kong this week, the success of the talks will largely hinge on one issue: the willingness of the U.S., Japan, and the European Union to live up to their own \"free trade\" rhetoric and to substantially cut their agricultural subsidies. By providing nearly $1 billion dollars a day in subsidies for their own farmers, the world\'s wealthiest countries, which regularly preach the virtues of open markets for poorer nations, are guilty of the rankest hypocrisy.
Be that as it may, a key question remains for critics of corporate globalization based both in the first world and in the global South: Is market access really the answer to poverty?
Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?
by Mark Engler, ZNet, 16 December, 2005
Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?
by Mark Engler, ZNet, 16 December, 2005 Knowledge Swaraj
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