Trade, not aid, offers path out of poverty

"GIVE us justice, not generosity," said the delegate from Kenya as he began a powerful contribution to a discussion I attended in Fiji on how to assist nations suffering under the greatest poverty.

He went on to explain that what he meant was trade justice - access to world markets that were blocked through quotas, the reduction or abolition of tariffs, the removal of export subsidies and an end to surplus produce being dumped in fragile emergi...