Friday, August 15, 2003

There is a seamy side to Free Trade that needs to be addressed in future trade arrangements.

"The gap between rich and poor countries has widened, and the legal disputes that accompany new trade agreements have actually raised, rather than lowered, tensions among nations. Free market 'reforms' imposed by trade agreements on poor nations often produce a thin layer of globally connected elites, while further impoverishing and angering the poor."

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