Undercutting small farmers:Rice trade in Bangladesh and WTO negotiation
2005
R A M Titumir
The current decadent practice of protection in agriculture through the principle of unfairness and injustice based on riches rather need has put about 22.93 million farmers, more than half of the employed population, at bay in Bangladesh. On the one hand, the resource constraint of the country constitutes stumbling block to providing support to the needy farmers, and on the other, the meagre subsidies that used to be given have been withdrawn through unilateral liberalisation measures at the diktat of the World Bank and the IMF, dealing a death knell to the agrarian economy of Bangladesh.Tyranny of the forced liberalisation with virtual absence of domestic support to Bangladesh agriculture and dishing out of bounty along the lines of rigged rules in the resource-rich countries have contributed to stall the reduction of rural poverty in Bangladesh.
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