In this trade report, Christian Aid explodes the myth that free trade policies are the answer to poverty eradication in developing countries – and explains how it could work so differently.
Under free trade's influence, most poor people have remained poor, many have been made poorer, and the gap between rich and poor has grown wider.
This report looks at the impact of trade policies forced upon poor people by rich nations and global institutions and finds, as increasing numbers of economic and academic analyses are also finding, that they need trade justice rather than free trade.
Stories from poor communities show the devastating impact that inappropriate free trade policies have had in the past 20 years, while examples from around the developing world show that there is another way forward.
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