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Article

25 Apr 2002

Author:
Marwaan Macan-Markar, Inter Press Service

EAST ASIA: Region's Poor Shortchanged by Trade Rules - Activists

East Asia's farmers, fishermen and women workers are being shortchanged by trade policies that offer few real opportunities to get out of poverty, activists with the international development agency Oxfam here say [includes reference to rice farmers in Thailand, coffee growers in Vietnam, fishermen in Philippines, women in Cambodia's garment industry]