Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Mar 10
  

  Allie Lundberg
  • The new free trade agreements being signed up  between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the  poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report  Tuesday.
  • forced into very deep tariff cuts
  • 25 developing countries have now signed free trade agreements with  developed countries.
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     "In an increasingly globalised world, these agreements seek to benefit  rich-country exporters and firms at the expense of poor farmers and  workers, with grave implications for the environment and development,"  it says.
  • The United States and the EU are pushing through rules on intellectual  property that reduce poor people's access to life-saving medicines,  increase the prices of seeds and other farming inputs beyond the reach  of small farmers, and make it harder for developing-country firms to  access new technology,
  • Increased exports to  the United States have failed to generate growth,
  • Recognise the special and differential treatment that developing  countries require in order to move up the development ladder.

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• 29 Oct 07
  

  Arne Løining

  globalization inequity neoliberalism

  • The new free trade agreements being signed up  between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the  poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report  Tuesday.

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