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Article: New jobs for poor communities through trade.(Portraits of Trade Development)
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- International Trade Forum
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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There are some stories that tell good news. It is worth keeping this in mind in a world where bad news sells, fed by a steady diet of headline-grabbing slogans and superbly crafted but frequently hollow generalizations by the forces of "anti"--anti-globalization, anti-trade liberalization. It is hard to get a hearing for the infinitely moving stories behind the small, grass-roots, low-cost projects, whose aim is to give poor people no more than they would ask for--a hand to get started on the ladder of success. Then, backed by a modest but steady income, they will take it from there to make a better life for themselves.
These narratives are the true story of ...