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Hypocrisy and Protectionism
Aug 2 2008, Celso Camargo

Developed countries are “full” of contradictions. The biggest example happended in the recent negotiations of the Doha round, in which they want that developing countries to open their markets, however, the richest deny themselves to do the same....

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