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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:15:11 -0600
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Subject: Americas Program | Agreement on Agriculture & WTO Negotiations
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What's New At The Americas Program
http://www.americaspolicy.org/
June 17, 2003
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New from the IRC's Americas Program:
Presentation to the European Parliament:
The Mexican Experience and Lessons for WTO Negotiations
on the Agreement on Agriculture
By Laura Carlsen
Mexico has been called the laboratory of free trade, because the nation radically opened its borders beginning in 1986, with entry into GATT. Mexico carried out unilateral trade liberalization and structural adjustments that accelerated sharply in 1994, when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
We can now draw on nearly two decades of experience in agricultural free trade policies from the perspective of a developing country. The lessons are illuminating for the present WTO negotiations, and indicate the need to seriously question the present focus on market access for developed countries, at the expense of food sovereignty, livelihoods and rural development in developing countries.
Laura Carlsen directs the Americas Program (online at www.americaspolicy.org) of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC, online at www.irc-online.org). She can be contacted at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
See full article online at:
http://www.americaspolicy.org/commentary/2003/0306eu.html
With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.americaspolicy.org/pdf/commentary/0306eu.pdf
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