Subsidies --- Agriculture remains a major source of income for countries such as India, Pakistan, and Africa. Their prices would be competitive in the international market if Western nations did not provide subsidies to their farmers and as a result, the farmers from developed countries can afford to sell at lower prices than farmers in developing countries. The developing countries have lobbied the WTO to put a stop to this practice. Other countries are beginning to see the WTO as nothing more than a vehicle for safeguarding Western interests.

Source author: Matshedisa Emily Mokoena mokoenamati@gmail.com