Combating Poverty Through Trade

by Zarah Patriana · 2008-10-15 05:45:00 UTC
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Looking around the internets for facts on poverty, I came across the Make Poverty History campaign, which also offered some inspiring quotes about alleviating poverty through trade justice. Here are some good ones echoing the Fair Trade sentiment:

Nelson Mandela, November 2003

Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

Trinidad Sanchez, director of COMAL, Honduras

The whole world is upside down because it puts economics before the human and social needs of people. We need to have different rules.

Ed O'Brien, Radiohead

Inequalities in trade are at the root of global poverty. Trade is fundamental to alleviating these problems.

Martin Khor, Director of Third World Network

'We want rules. But we want fair rules.

Also, a separate quote I found from Former U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan,

"No single change could make a greater contribution to eliminating poverty than by fully opening the markets of prosperous countries to the goods produced by poor ones."

Zarah Patriana
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