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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Dear IGC Memebrs,</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">With reference to this discussion thread, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">I appreciate the statement (which is being referred as Global Governance) of the former president Clinton regarding the policies which resulted the farmers off the land and undercut Haiti's ability to feed itself. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">This statement is regarding the reduction of tariffs on rice imports, which reduced the rice prices in Haiti. <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">This also provided short time benefit to the Haiti People to buy food on lower prices.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">But how may policies reflected bad and how much lessons are learned to not to repeat in favor of the other world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Are they going to charge higher tariffs and prices from the Haiti rice importers (onward) to create the stability, self sufficiency and to encourage local farmers to produce more rice crop? Have they returned back from the crises of natural disaster which happened in Jan 10? Are they self sufficient to decide and to afford grow the crop to full fill they requirements of the nation? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">The success of a nation is hidden in this truth to reduced their needs and only depend on the inland production, resources and skills. If all the developing countries follow this policy, they will become self sufficient.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">However, Haiti has faced Natural Disaster and the remaining world has to support and help them and to promote them for their re-establishment. At this stage the trade policies should be totally relaxed for them.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 4; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Do you know how much food, grains, wheat and rice are through away just to maintain the <A href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Consumer Prices, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">instead of helping poor people of the world, “What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year url ref. <A href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/what-a-waste-britain-throws-away-16310bn-of-food-every-year-822809.html"><FONT color=#800080>http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/what-a-waste-britain-throws-away-16310bn-of-food-every-year-822809.html</FONT></A>”.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">It was batter to offer Haiti Farmers to produce food grains, wheat and rice to export and this movement could be strengthen by giving them export orders in advance to become biggest rice exporters of the world.</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Regards</SPAN></P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> michael gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, 2 April, 2010 20:57:09<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd World<BR></FONT><BR>This isn't directly about Internet Governance but rather about overall<BR>issues underlying "Global Governance" of which Internet Governance is IMHO a<BR>subset hence I think that the below might be of some interest:<BR><BR><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001" target=_blank>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001</A><BR>329_pf.html<BR><BR>Former US president admits trade policies were "a mistake"<BR><BR>During testimony before a US Senate committee three weeks ago,
Clinton<BR>admitted that requiring Haiti to lower its tariffs on rice imports made it<BR>impossible for Haitian farmers to compete. The trade policy forced farmers<BR>off the land and undercut Haiti's ability to feed itself.<BR><BR>"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not<BR>worked. It was a mistake," Clinton - now a UN special envoy to Haiti - told<BR>the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10. "I had to live<BR>everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice<BR>crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else."<BR><BR>Clinton´s apology attracted scant media attention in the US and none in<BR>Canada. It was included as part of an Associated Press news agency report<BR>that was published by the Washington Post on March 20. The AP report from<BR>Haiti´s earthquake-ravaged capital, Port au Prince, suggests world leaders<BR>are reconsidering trade and aid policies
that make poor countries dependent<BR>on rich ones. It quotes UN aid official John Holmes as saying that poor<BR>countries, like Haiti, need to become more self-sufficient by rebuilding<BR>their own food production. "A combination of food aid, but also cheap<BR>imports have...resulted in a lack of investment in Haitian farming, and that<BR>has to be reversed," Holmes told AP. "That's a global phenomenon, but<BR>Haiti´s a prime example. I think this is where we should start."<BR><BR>Neo-liberal policies forced on Haiti<BR><BR>The Clinton administration forced Jean Bertrand Aristide to agree to cut<BR>rice tariffs drastically when the US restored the Haitian president to power<BR>in October 1994. Aristide, Haiti´s first democratically elected president,<BR>had been overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1991. In return for $770<BR>million in international loans and aid, Aristide was required to agree to a<BR>business-friendly "structural adjustment"
program that aside from cutting<BR>food tariffs, also included freezing the minimum wage, cutting the size of<BR>the civil service and privatizing public utilities. (Aristide annoyed the US<BR>by being slow to implement such policies making Bill Clinton´s apology this<BR>month all the more surprising.)<BR><BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR> <A href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR><BR>For all list information and functions, see:<BR> <A href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance"
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