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But in many instances the natural resources they need to export , sometimes mainly to keep up payments on foreign debt , are located in the ... Timber exports are an important source of foreign exchange for several tropical countries .
But in many instances the natural resources they need to export , sometimes mainly to keep up payments on foreign debt , are located in the ... Timber exports are an important source of foreign exchange for several tropical countries .
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have had to face wide - ranging restrictions on exports to industrial countries . The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) was designed to be a global bulwark of trade liberalization and nondiscrimination , but protection and ...
have had to face wide - ranging restrictions on exports to industrial countries . The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) was designed to be a global bulwark of trade liberalization and nondiscrimination , but protection and ...
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... produced in developing countries and the export to these countries of capital - intensive , labor - saving technologies , as well as the structural adjustment measures that had deepened the social crisis in debt - ridden countries .
... produced in developing countries and the export to these countries of capital - intensive , labor - saving technologies , as well as the structural adjustment measures that had deepened the social crisis in debt - ridden countries .
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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