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Article: End farm subsidies.
- Article from:
- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- December 6, 2005
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The following editorial appeared in the Orlando Sentinel on Monday, Dec. 5:
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Time is running out for the United States and other developed countries to agree to phase out their trade-distorting, taxpayer-gouging, Third World-punishing farm subsidies.
The latest round of world trade talks is scheduled to resume later this month in Hong Kong. The World Bank has estimated that a successful completion of the talks could boost the world economy by $500 billion a year and lift at least 144 million people out of poverty.
But the talks have little hope for success unless the United States, the 25-member European Union and other developed ...