Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study

Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study, a WTO news article published in 2000, reports a study published by WTO Secretariat that finds that trade liberalisation helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones and that this faster economic growth helps to alleviate poverty.

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WTO Date published: 13/06/2000

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