In everyday conversations, people express their worries about unemployment and inequality, about the brain drain and immigration, about civil conflict or environmental damage. What many people do not know is that international trade can be part of the solution. In countries where opportunities for development are scarce, trade matters even more in the fight against poverty. Without wider public support and understanding of international trade and development issues, it will be hard for initiatives to succeed. People who could speak out about the benefits of trade have neither done it well nor gone beyond limited circles. Trade can be a complex issue to explain. Leaders in trade, development and finance in least developed countries do not always communicate properly with each other, for ...
...Similarly, four years after the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, as many as 88... find that many trade development stories are not "breaking news" in the way that disease, c...