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The study estimates that free trade could reduce the number of people earning less than $2 per day by about 500 million over 15 years. This would cut the world poverty level by 25 percent. Cline judges that the developing countries were right to risk collapse of the Doha Round at the Cancun minister...

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Other Authors: Houser, Trevor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Peterson Institute for International Economics : World Resources Institute, 2008.
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Summary:The study estimates that free trade could reduce the number of people earning less than $2 per day by about 500 million over 15 years. This would cut the world poverty level by 25 percent. Cline judges that the developing countries were right to risk collapse of the Doha Round at the Cancun ministerial meeting in September 2003 by insisting on much deeper liberalization of agriculture than the industrial countries were then willing to offer.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 95 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-81) and index.
ISBN:9781435655386
1435655389
128139713X
9781281397133
9780881324907
0881324906
9786611397135
6611397132
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.