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The real losers are cotton farmers in West Africa, textile workers in low income Asian and Muslim states, and low income shoppers in the poorest quarters of America and Europe. The Doha Round was supposed to help the world's poor, by lowering subsidies that keep Mali's cotton out of textile mills, tariffs that limit the flow of Cambodian T-shirts and other clothes to shelves. The big countries had a chance to help the poor and flopped.

All Fall Down, by Edward Gresser YaleGlobal, 27 July 2006

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Marcos Sawaya Jank is President of the Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE) and Associate Professor of International Economics and Trade Policy at the School of Economics and Business of the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2001/02, he served as Special Expert in Integration and Trade at the Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. A former Special Counselor to the Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade in 1999, he is also a regular consultant of the World Bank, OECD, IDB, FAO, UNDP, and other international organizations.Dr. Jank was also a visiting researcher at Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service) and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is author or coauthor of over 170 publications and has conducted 300 presentations throughout Brazil and around the world on subjects such as trade policy, international trade, multilateral and preferential trade agreements, agriculture and agribusiness competitiveness, and comparative agricultural policies. He is also a regular writer for the newspaper "O Estado de São Paulo" and publishes articles in the magazines Veja, Época and Exame. He holds a B.Sc. degree in agronomy from USP, a M.Sc. in Agricultural Policies (Montpellier, France), and a Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Business at USP.

(April 2004)

Marcos Sawaya Jank is President of the Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE) and Associate Professor of International Economics and Trade Policy at the School of Economics and Business of the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2001/02, he served as Special Expert in Integration and Trade at the Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. A former Special Counselor to the Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade in 1999, he is also a member at the Academic Council of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), the OAS Network on Trade, the Working Group on EU-Mercosur Negotiations at Sciences Politiques-Paris, and the Trade and Poverty Forum of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

Dr. Jank was also a visiting researcher at Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service) and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is author or coauthor of over 170 publications and has conducted 300 presentations throughout Brazil and around the world on subjects such as trade policy, international trade, multilateral and preferential trade agreements, agriculture and agribusiness competitiveness, and comparative agricultural policies. He is also a regular writer for the newspaper "O Estado de São Paulo" and publishes articles in the magazines Veja, Época and Exame. He holds a B.Sc. degree in agronomy from USP, a M.Sc. in Agricultural Policies (Montpellier, France), and a Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Business at USP.

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Marcos Sawaya Jank is President of the Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE) and Associate Professor of International Economics and Trade Policy at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he also coordinates the bachelor’s program in international relations. While in Washington, D.C., during 2001/02, he served as Special Expert in Integration and Trade at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Integration, Trade, and Hemispheric Issues Division. Mr. Jank also served as Special Counselor to the Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade of Brazil in 1999.

Dr. Jank was also a visiting scholar at Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service) and the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 2003, he became the first holder of the Canada Visiting Research Chair in Brazilian Studies, a collaborative initiative of York University, University of Western Ontario, Université du Québec à Montréal and University of Calgary. Currently, Mr. Jank is active in several organizations including the OAS Network on Trade, the Working Group on European Union-Mercosur Negotiations at Sciences Politiques, Paris, and the Brazil-Germany Commission on Agribusiness.

Mr. Jank received his bachelor’s of science degree in Agronomy from USP, his master’s of science degree in Montpellier, France, and his doctoral degree at the School of Economics of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
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