{"id":2144,"date":"2007-06-28T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2007-06-28T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:41:40","slug":"afghanistan-rush-to-wto-membership-could-endanger-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: rush to WTO membership could endanger development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oxfam Press Release ? 28 June 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afghanistan?s fight against poverty could suffer if it rushes to join the World Trade Organization, international aid agency Oxfam warned today.<\/p>\n<p>The report ?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/policy\/briefingpapers\/bp92_afghanistan_wto_accession_0706\" title=\"Getting the fundamentals right: The early stages of Afghanistan?s WTO accession process\">Getting the fundamentals right ? the early stages of Afghanistan?s WTO accession process<\/a>? says that joining the WTO too soon may not boost Afghan exports as promised but instead open vulnerable sectors of agriculture and industry to strong foreign competition. In the short-to-medium term, tariffs and other measures are necessary to protect local industries and rural trades, and to foster economic development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[ Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/news\/2007\/pr070628_afghanistan_wto_accession\">press release<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/policy\/briefingpapers\/bp92_afghanistan_wto_accession_0706\">report<\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam Press Release ? 28 June 2007 Afghanistan?s fight against poverty could suffer if it rushes to join the World Trade Organization, international aid agency Oxfam warned today. The report ?Getting the fundamentals right ? the early stages of Afghanistan?s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}