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Thandiwe
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Gender & Age: Female & 34
Country: Malawi
Province/State: Lilongwe
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Economic parnership Agreements (EPAs)
April 26, 2006 - 07:33 AM
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A couple of years ago the Eeropen Union came up with proposed Economic partnership Agreements (EPAs) with development countries. generally the are aimed at promoting gradual free trade between the EU and developing countries with the removal of charges on imports and opening up countries for developed to come and open businesses in poor countries like my own. This may look good on paper but the implication is that our poor contries will lose the money that they get from from charging taxes on imports and local industries will suffer because they can not compete with developed companies from abroad. These are just few of the implications. Can we share ideas on how the youth can be affected by the EPAs? O
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