Sunday, July 3

End Western Countries' Trade Subsidies

Among Ordinary Africans, G-8 Seems Out of Touch By Emily Wax says that
Instead of debt relief and more aid, many Africans said they wanted the G-8 to focus on ending corruption and on improving roads, courts, banking and secondary education.

Another useful step, many Africans said, would be to end Western countries' trade subsidies for their own farmers, which make it impossible for African industries to do much more than survive. Debt relief, some asserted, is actually hush money to get free trade advocates off the backs of European countries, the United States and Japan, which offer huge subsidies to their corn, cattle and cotton farmers and thus undercut African farmers' ability to enter the market.
Can't you see the demonstrators at the Live 8 concerts asking for this?

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