Not by their bootstraps alone
Don’t expect liberalisation on its own to end poverty
HOW should a poor country become less poor? Open its economy, attract investors, export goods and free its markets, of course. But that may not be enough, according to a report by a United Nations trade and development body. UNCTAD is concerned with the world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs). Its third, ten-yearly conference on these, the poorest of the poor, opens next week in Belgium.
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