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New Latin American trade and poverty programme launches today
posted Monday, October 08, 2007 2:06 PM by Enrique Mendizabal

A couple of years ago, when the Free Trade Agreement between the US and Peru was still being negotiated, a friend who had worked in the Peruvian Ministry of Trade and had been involved in the negotiations told me that studies about the effects of the agreement on poverty had been commissioned but not been made public. Why? Because they could have been used against them by civil society groups opposing the FTA, he said. .. (more)

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