Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: part 1

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Trade can also be good for health, improving peoples’ lives through access to goods or technologies that cure disease or improve wellbeing. Proponents of trade liberalisation argue further that it can increase economic growth and wealth creation, both of which may reduce poverty4 and allow for greater investments in health care, education, environmental protection, and other population health determinants.5 Others maintain that the relation is subtler. Development economist, Ha-Joon Chang6 points out that today’s wealthy countries became so through a variety of policies—infant industry protection, export subsidisation, copying of foreign technologies, and strong state controls over foreign investment—that new trade liberalisation rules increasingly deny poorer countries.

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