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Charity (6) Susan Schwab
“We regard it as our generation’s opportunity to attack the scourge of poverty by opening trade flows between all nations in agricultural goods, industrial products and services. Half-measures that would leave millions in poverty—people who might otherwise have been helped—and that would dampen potential economic opportunities for people in all countries, should not be acceptable.”
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