The single best anti-poverty program the US could offer the world would be unilateral, super-lateral free trade—opening US borders to all foreign goods without barriers, not contingent on reciprocal market opening; the benefit to foreign nations is access to our goods and the ability to specialize, not merely the chance to sell to us.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

that to me would be the single best we could do for the world

Source

Mike Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade 12/3/2007EconTalk
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