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Government subsidies mean considerable cost reduction for major companies and 1 to around 10 percent of annual world trade. In the year 2000, subsidies through ECAs 2 up to 64 billion dollars of exports from industrialised countries, 3 above the official development assistance granted last year 4 51.4 billion dollars.
As well as agriculture, textiles and clothing is another 5 of many poor countries. But, as 6 agriculture, the wealthier countries have long held up barriers to prevent being 7 by poorer country products through subsidies and various "agreements". The 8 has been far-reaching. Since the 1970s the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) has set bilateral 9 between importing and exporting countries. This was 10 to protect the clothing industries of the industrialised world while they adapted to competition from developing countries. 11 there are cases where such protection may be warranted, especially for 12 periods, the MFA has been in place since 1974 and has been extended five times.
Although the MFA has been replaced by the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) which phases 13 support over a further ten year period — 14 through a process which in itself is highly inequitable—developing countries are still 15 the consequences. The total cost 16 in restrictions on textile imports 17 , the developed world has been estimated to be some $50 billion a year.
Many in the first world imagine the amount of money spent on aid to developing countries is 18 . In fact, it amounts to only 0.03% of GNP of the industrialized nations. In 1995, the director of the US aid agency defended his agency by 19 to his congress that 84 cents of every dollar of aid goes back into the US 20 in goods and services purchased. For every dollar the United States puts into the World Bank, an estimated $2 actually goes into the US economy in goods and services.

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