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Trade can be a powerful engine for poverty reduction. But rigged trade rules and double standards mean trade often traps poor people in poverty.
Oxfam works with organisations around the world to shift global trade rules so they work to help raise poor people in the developing world out of poverty.
We campaign:
- To stop rich countries dumping subsidised farm products in the developing world that ruin the livelihoods of local farmers
- To stop rich countries from forcing developing countries to prematurely open their economies to agricultural imports
- To improve the price paid to small farmers for their coffee
- To improve fairness and employment opportunities in poor countries through opening up of markets in the developed world (for example the textile market)
- To ensure that bilateral trade agreements between rich countries such as Australia and poorer countries do not undermine development and livelihoods in the latter
- For companies and governments to respect women's workplace rights in the developing world
