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Getting to market

Published: March 23 2006 02:00 | Last updated: March 23 2006 02:00

Necessary, but not necessarily sufficient. That is the verdict reached by the World Bank's independent evaluation group on the trade liberalisation the bank has supported in the past.

Those conclusions make good sense. But they also underline that the struggle to integrate poor countries into the global economy requires action across a broad front; and that governments of those countries must take a lead

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