Proponents of “trade justice” as part of a comprehensive approach to fighting global poverty often point to rich countries’ agricultural subsidies as a big part of the problem because they create unfair competition for farmers in the developing world. This article offers six reasons that slashing subsidies and trade barriers would be good for people living in rich countries too. Seems like a place where fair traders and free traders could come to some agreement.
Trade justice and farm protectionism
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here here! another factor in poverty indeveloping countries is a real lack of vision on the part of American and European organized labor. The developing world is rife with labor abuses and a gold-mine for organizers but they’re so caught up in this xenophobic protectionism that they fail to see this. All they seem to do is whine about how hard many companies in the developing world (and the American South for that matter) make it hard to organize workers, as if organizing the factories, mills, mines and waterfronts of america was a breeze. Weiners.
A Thinking Reed 
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