A pittance and have little or no access to Public Health or Education Systems as a result more and more people are leaving their homelands and risking their lives to head for more prosperous countries like germany so our question on quadriga this week is fair trade how unjust is the Global Economy and to discuss the topic im joined here in the studio by three astute observers and analysts beginning with mick cohen miscue not a specialist on migration and Diversity Inc with the highly respond foundation he says alongside war and bad governance the inequality of opportunity in Global Markets is the main factor behind the global Migration Crisis also with us is alan posner a commentator for the berlin daily felt ellen believes that the main drivers of poverty and i mean gratian of War Corruption Fragile states and bad leaders and noughts unjust Trade Relations and the world working to to raj each iran run a Development Economist at the European School of management and technology for
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countries in africa have relations with the e.u. where they can export zero tariff we extend to the most diverse nation status the problem is not tariffs of europe against africa the problem is terms within africa there are there are neighboring countries like france ethiopian eritrean which until about a month ago didn t do any trade with each other and if you know people being landlocked couldn t get to the ports in in eritrea. days this day they can t get into somalia so this is the big problem is not us how many landlocked countries in africa can get to the disease because there s a there s a border with corrupt custom officials not only taking the time. if the government imposes but they re caught i mean these are the big problems that we can t solve for africa all we can do is say look come on we re allowing you to import to us why
we also destroy jobs over there the recent research in. mexico is that for every one point five million food imports into mexico thirty five most lose their jobs and migrate to the u.s. so we also need to tackle not only their export but also our imports or our exports to those countries also destroy their local markets i think that you know the point that you made about i m an economist right so about trade needing to improve efficiency is a very very important one and this is what motivated the quote that we began with i mean no country has become middle income or high income in a modern age without trade ok so that is a necessary condition but of course just because it s efficient doesn t mean it s just in that context because you re going to be as you pointed out there are going to be winners and there are going to be losers so i disagree with your statement
e.d.s. mt also in berlin and raji argues that trade is necessary for prosperity but it is not always just we know all the losers after our peril country watching i would like to begin with you as we ve just heard the richest one percent of humanity owns more than the rest put together it s a bewildering figure it s almost unbearable but we do bear it how come how come how how come we are so indifferent. i not entirely sure i agree that we are in different ways here that statistic and many if not most listeners these shocking reality sucking realities and we are indifferent to the extent that we re clearly not doing enough to do something about them the question really is not that people in general aren t different but that the people that are in power in terms
don t you trade more with us no one would take issue a little bit with your claim there because you make europe seem like this knight in shining armor here right that it has become a very train most people you know hard to think i mean let me pick up on a point that mckown in mentioned earlier which was agricultural tariffs or agricultural subsidies better different you know quite not entirely ok so we re talking about leaving all the you know providing all these opportunities for trade and acting as if europe is. the saint here then we have to begin if you know your cultural fifty nine million. dollars subsidies. well if you re of the e.u. budget agricultural subsidies comprise thirty eight percent of the. other five percent of the population and this is if you re talking about you know the point you mentioned earlier that trade is you know good for efficiency comparative advantage then if you know african countries have