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Article: Selected aspects of international trade and the World Trade Organization's Doha round: overview and introduction.
- Article from:
- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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International trade is credited with alleviating poverty for hundreds of millions in the world, especially in India and China. (1) However, not all have benefited from it. To illustrate, Africa's share in the world trade has declined since the 1990s, and sub-Saharan countries have been marginalized. The United Nations Development Program reported in 2005 that if Africa could have maintained the share of global export that it had in 1980, its export earnings would have been about $119 billion higher then. (2) The report noted that "the share of world export of sub-Saharan Africa, with 689 million people, is less than one half that of Belgium, with ten million ...