"World Bank Reconsiders Trade's Benefits to Poor" (WP)

According to a groundbreaking new study by the fucking World Bank, full, pie-in-the-sky, no tariff globalization will have the effect of lifting an estimated 6-12 million people above the poverty line. Problem being, of course, is that's about one percent of all the people living under the poverty line, and significantly below prior WB forecasts.


Sorry Hariri! No trickle down for you... Back to the desert of the real you go! And bring your ragged sack with you.