Free Trade Fact of the Day
Posted June 10th, 2008 at 10.56am in American Leadership.
Defending free trade from politicians who “pander to Americans’ suspicion of foreigners,” George Mason University economics professor Tyler Cowen writes in the New York Times:
The last 20 years have brought the world more trade, more globalization and more economic growth than in any previous such period in history. Few commentators had believed that such a rise in trade and living standards was possible so quickly.
More than 400 million Chinese climbed out of poverty between 1990 and 2004, according to the World Bank. India has become a rapidly growing economy, the middle class in Brazil and Mexico is flourishing, and recent successes of Ghana and Tanzania show that parts of Africa may be turning the corner as well.
A new research paper by Christian Broda and John Romalis, both professors at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, has shown that cheap imports from China have benefited the American poor disproportionately. In fact, for the poor, discounting in stores such as Wal-Mart has offset much of the rise in measured income inequality from 1994 to 2005.
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June 10, 2008 mary f. writes:
Cheap knox”"off were always sent into neigbhorhoods to harm, bring down, every one gets rich and the poor,poor!! keep getting sicker, body and soul. Where else is their to shop,I really feel concern, with gas prices — pushing to $5@thepump, how can young workers ( ages 25-50 ) afford to drive to work,and forget eating out.And some weeks no shopping at any stores
Hello, have the Inspections and researchers and the chief -head, sorry, HeadChief returned from their “lunch” break yet,u guys… They are needed back to work, Testing, Testing,We demand to be” totally covered” from head to-toe.