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If they really wanted to help developing countries they would argue for debt cancellation.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 25th, 2005 at 12:20:00 PM EST
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They should argue debt cancellation, but it takes more than that.  Many developing countries are ruled by brutal governments that will simply borrow more money.

I'm okay with loaning them money, even if they don't pay it back, but we in the West need to focus on ways to help the people instead of setting them up to fall down again.

However, if we're going to talk about trade, we need to talk about real trade and not the mercantilist nonsense that pass for trade with countries like China.  We also need to talk about America and Europe getting serious about opeing up markets that are difficult, politically, to open (like dropping America's huge agricultural subsidies).

If we're going to open trade, but not allow these countries to export what they specialize in, then all the "trade" in the world won't make a damned bit of difference.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Nov 25th, 2005 at 12:53:37 PM EST
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