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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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If you can grow say Coffee on a field and that'll make you $1000 a year, and grain you'll only get $350 a year, it's better to grow the coffee and import the grain. Not only for yourself but for the whole countries economy. It's globalisation.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:25, 1 reply, 12 years ago)
but if the country's too poor to import grain because wealthier countries are buying it all?(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:32, Reply)
The wealthy countries can't get rid of grain quick enough, and they subsidise it a lot.(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:44, Reply)
well that's not what I heardAnd the guy I heard it from had dreadlocks and a beard, so you know he was telling the truth
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