[governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd World

[michael gurstein]

Avri,

I don't think that this is about "your country bad/mine good" but rather
about the impact of the policy of an extremely rich and powerful country
impacting extremely negatively on the economic conditions in an extremely
poor country. 

And more importantly for our purposes the fact that that particular policy
(now apparently disavowed by one of its most important protagonists--Bill
Clinton) is underpinned by a philosophical/ideological approach
(neo-liberalism) which is very much alive in our discussions here on
Internet Governance i.e. the mystical belief in "letting the market decide"
irrespective of reality or impact.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at acm.org] 
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 8:26 AM
To: IGC
Subject: Re: [governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd
World



On 4 Apr 2010, at 07:24, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:

> Anyway, right now the recent Obama government's decision to reduce 
> barriers to ethanol imports is meeting severe resistance from US corn 
> farmers. Any similar attempt regarding other crops will have similar 
> reactions, and basically nothing is new on this and nothing will 
> change, remorseful discourses aside. Europe is of course no exception.


just checking because i do not know, what are Brazil's policies regarding
the protection of its farmers and industries?

also i think it is easy to condemn other countries for such behavior, but
when masses of people are unemployed and homeless, despite the fact that
rich manufacturers and agribusiness are raking in the billions, the issue is
slightly more complex then US and Europe are bad.  also when the business
leaders in the developing world are exploiting their workers and using child
labor in many case to enable their capitalists to get rich, were does the
motivation come from?

this your country bad, my country good stuff is not going to get us very far
- though it does help the owners of our repspective countries a bunch.

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