If Africa, East Asia,
South Asia, and Latin America each increased their share of world
exports by just one per cent, the resulting gains could lift 128
million people out of poverty.
 Rich
countries limit and control poor countries' share of the world market
by charging high taxes on imported goods. As a result, many poor
countries can only afford to export raw materials, which give far
lower returns than finished products.
For example, the rich world buys cheap cotton
and cocoa and turns them into expensive clothes and chocolate -
reaping all of the profit. At the same time, poor countries are
threatened with having loans withheld unless they open their markets
to rich countries' exports.
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