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Be Fair to the Poor: Box Off Free Trade

Special report: globalisation The Guardian (UK) | Duncan Green and Matthew Griffiths | September 3, 2001

NAFTA Doesn""t Treat All Farmers Equally

Dallas Morning News | September 3, 2001 | BY: JIM LANDERS WASHINGTON - When the coffee beans were ripe, there was no sense picking them. World prices were too low. When the sugar cane fields warmed, there was no sense in planting. Refiners haven't paid growers for many months.

Trade Restrictions Hang over Farm Legislation

Associated Press | September 3, 2001 | By PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON - As lawmakers spend the fall overhauling federal farm programs, they will have to keep one eye on an international trade agreement that could limit how much money they give to growers.

Mexico WTO Conference to Focus on Interests of Developing Nations

International Trade Daily | August 31, 2001

Protesters Lash IMF, World Bank

Agence France Presse | August 29, 2001 WASHINGTON - Activists planning mass protests against the IMF and World Bank next month accused the two institutions Tuesday of secretly plotting policies that hurt the poor.

Agricultural Groups Mount Campaign against Australian Free Trade Agreement

International Trade Daily | August 31, 2001 | By Chris Rugaber

Global Economy""s New Guardian; D.C.""s Answer to IMF, World Bank Protests: Miles of Chain-Link

HEADLINE: By: David Montgomery Washington Post

Fast Track a Way to Dump Democracy

By Patti Goldman The Seattle Post-Intelligencer A little more than a year and a half ago, thousands marched in Seattle to demand that trade institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, respect the world environment and the creatures that inhabit it.

Ministers Attempt World Trade Talks

Associated Press | By Traci Carl, AP Business Writer | August 30, 2001 MEXICO CITY - Under a cloak of secrecy, trade ministers from around the world were converging on Mexico City to try to start global trade talks that never got off the ground in riot-marred talks in Seattle two years ago.

Administration to Work with Congress to Lift Economic Sanctions against India

International Trade Daily | August 29, 2001 | By Gary G. Yerkey The Bush administration plans to begin work with key members of Congress early next month on lifting the economic sanctions that were imposed against India just over three years ago, officials said Aug. 28.