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Agreements

PROLOGUE

International Agreements And Health

PROLOGUE: How times have changed. Back in the dim recesses of the 1990s, which saw the birth of NAFTA in 1993 and the WTO in 1995, international free trade and globalization were viewed by politicians and pundits with rosy optimism as the essential engine through which worldwide prosperity would be assured. As the theory went, the dismantling of tariffs and other protectionist remnants would ensure the developed world access to previously proscribed markets in the developing world, while poorer countries would be empowered to complete the leap to industrialization.

Then the piper came calling. The "giant sucking sound," first articulated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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