G8 failing to make poverty history
Ekklesia reports that, one year on, the promises of the G8 leaders are fading memories.
G8 leaders vowed to make trade work for development at World Trade Organisation but over the last year poorer countries have instead been squeezed out of talks and their demands dismissed…Developing countries are facing aggressive demands from G8 countries to open their agricultural markets. At the same time their proposals to be able to protect their vulnerable producers are being fiercely resisted.
pax et bonum
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