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The ratio of global trade to GDP has been rising over
the past decade, but it has been falling for 44 developing countries,
with more than a billion people. The least developed countries, with
10% of the world's people, have only 0.3% of world trade-half their
share of two decades ago.
The list goes on:
- More than half of all developing countries have
been bypassed by foreign direct investment, two-thirds of which has
gone to only eight developing countries.
- Real commodity prices in the 1990s were 45% lower
than those in the 1980s—and 10% lower than the lowest level during
the Great Depression, reached in 1932.
- The terms of trade for the least developed countries
have declined a cumulative 50% over the past 25 years.
- Average tariffs on industry country imports from
the least developed countries are 30% higher than the global average.
- Developing countries lose about $60 billion a
year from agricultural subsidies and barriers to textile exports in
industrial nations.
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