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Economic Partnership Agreements will thwart MDGs
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apesphere on 13 Apr 2009
From: allafrica.com
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New trade agreements being negotiated between African countries and the European Union "will prevent" achievment of the Millennium Development Goals.
The Economic Partnership Agreements would have the effect of joining African nations into an enlarged free trade area with Europe, according to Thomas Deve, a policy analyst with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Deve goes on in the article to call the accords a "one-way street to disaster".
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