Understanding Global Issues

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Third World Trade: The awkward questions of tobacco and tea

Cash crops provide much-needed employment and revenue for many Third World countries. Yet the growing of "luxury" crops for export to rich countries raises some uncomfortable questions, especially when the terms of trade are often so unfavourable to the producers. We look at this controversial subject, taking tobacco and tea as examples.

Published: May 1992 ISBN: 0850489237

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