{"id":142,"date":"2006-02-27T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2006-02-27T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T19:22:12","slug":"how-to-increase-the-standard-of-living-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/how-to-increase-the-standard-of-living-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to increase the standard of living in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open markets, not handouts, are the key to prosperity in Africa. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/ecosocdev\/geninfo\/afrec\/vol16no2\/162reg3.htm\">UN article<\/a> explains on a human level how customs and trade barriers between African Nations affects growth of prosperity in African Countries.  In December the trade talks dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=Doha%20Development%20Agenda&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wn\">Doha Development Agenda<\/a> were meant to reduce the barriers to trade from poor nations to rich nations. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_VNRPSVD\">Economist Article<\/a> suggests, however, that not only should we remove barriers like the US&#8217;s subsidies on Cotton, but also barriers between small African countries which possibly do more harm to development efforts than barriers to rich country&#8217;s markets. Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_smith\">Adam Smith<\/a> was right all along.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/ecosocdev\/geninfo\/afrec\/vol16no2\/woodpush.jpg\" alt=\"Trade Barriers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo : \u00a9Impact Visuals \/ Wim van Cappellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open markets, not handouts, are the key to prosperity in Africa. This UN article explains on a human level how customs and trade barriers between African Nations affects growth of prosperity in African Countries. In December the trade talks dubbed the Doha Development Agenda were meant to reduce the barriers to trade from poor nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}