Market access (trade)

The ability of developing countries to expand export earnings—something so critical to accelerating the economic growth needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—depends upon the growth of world trade, open access to markets and the ability to diversify. Owing to the continuing effects of the global financial and economic crisis, world trade is still growing at a rate slower than that of the pre-crisis period. Moreover, as the overall world economic outlook darkened in 2012, estimates of the growth of world trade have been repeatedly revised downwards.

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