Industrial countries charge on average 1 per cent on their sales to other industrial countries while exporters from South Asia pay 8 per cent. ... The yearly subsidy the US gives just to American cotton farmers is three times its total aid to Africa. From 2001 to 2002, the US granted its cotton farmers $3 billion in subsidies, more than the entire economic output of Burkina Faso, just one poor African nation. ...

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They find most resonance in developing countries, and especially those states of Southeast Asia for whom recent economic crises have brought back shades of the north-south contest between the developed and developing world that dominated the international agenda in the 1970s but largely disappeared throughout the 1980s and 1990s. ...

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