"Free Trade Cuts Poverty"

[Chuck0]

Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
> 
> We've heard this a lot, and now the Aussie government
> is singing the same age-old tune: "Free Trade Reduces
> Poverty and for those countries who do not do well,
> it's because rich nations have too much
> protectionism"...I'd like to hear these claims
> disputed clearly (I have a feeling this report is
> flawed, but that's just a feeling)
> 
> Globalisation 'helps cut world poverty'
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/16/national/national10.html
> 

The World Bank has been making its usual noises about this in the past
few days.

Chuck0
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