Article: Cancun's charming outcome - Breakdown in Cancun; World trade talks.(World trade after the breakdown in Cancun)

Champions of the world's poor are celebrating the collapse of global trade talks. Some champions

"VICTORY to the people," cheered a press release from a globophobic activist group, Food First, after the world trade talks broke down in Cancun on September 14th. This delight is widely shared among developing-country advocates and even among many poor-country governments. Great news from Cancun? What scandalous rubbish. The failure sprang not from principle, nor even from intelligent calculation, but from cynicism, delusion and incompetence. It is going to leave most people in the world worse off--and, without a doubt, those who will suffer worst are the world's ...

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