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University of Illinois

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(England) MIC K KELL Y University of East Angtia

(England) MARTIN KHOR KO K PENG

Consumers Association of

Penang (Malaysia) SMITHU KOTHAR I Lokayan Social Action

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University of Oslo

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African Environmental

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Editorial GATT and Gunboat Diplomacy 202 Edward Goldsmith

Special GATT Feature Recolonization: GATT in its Historical Context 205 Chakravarthi Raghavan Through the Uruguay Round, the industrial countries are seeking to extend their control over Third World markets for the benefit of Northern transnational corporations. If they succeed, the Third World will face a new era of unprecedented economic colonialism. The Uruguay Round and the Third World 208 Martin Khor Kok Peng Through the incorporation of services and investments into GATT, transnational corporations will be able to penetrate sectors of the Third World economy hitherto inaccessible to them. The family-owned "informal sector" is likely to be swallowed up as corporations begin to dominate the market. Third World countries will suffer in other areas too as the position of TNCs becomes increasingly entrenched. GATT, Agriculture and the Environment 214 Mark Ritchie The US hopes to use the Uruguay Round to push through a drastic series of measures to "liberalize" world trade in agricultural and related products. The proposals would severely compromise the ability of nations to protect their natural resources and would lead to health standards being reduced to their lowest common denominator. European Agriculture and the Uruguay Round 221 Tracey Clunies-Ross Through GATT, the US is pushing to reduce subsidies to European agriculture by as much as 70 per cent. Among the losers will be Europe's small farmers. The European Community is resisting the US proposals but is under threat of a trade war with the US.

Feature Articles Indigenous Peoples and the Marketing of the Rain Forest 223 Andrew Gray Marketing rainforest products as a means of protecting the forest has caught the popular imagination. It is promoted as "green capitalism" at its most innovative. But it will not save the forests if indigenous societies become dependent on international markets over which they have no control. The Politics of Poisoning: The Camelford Scandal 228 Douglas Cross The accidental contamination of a Cornish town's water supplies with aluminium sulphate has caused severe local health problems. But the complaints of residents have been dismissed by the authorities as unproven and whipped up by the media. Accusations of a political cover-up to protect the water industry are gaining ground.

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