Dr. Oliver Marc Hartwich 15.04.2008 08:06 +Feedback
Freihandel hilft gegen hohe Lebensmittelpreise
Kurzer Nachtrag zu Vera Lengsfelds Beitrag von gestern (“Auch die ARD verdummt ihre Zuschauer”). Die hohen Lebensmittelpreise haben nicht nur etwas mit dem vermehrten Anbau von Pflanzen für die Biospritproduktion zu tun, sondern auch mit hohen Zöllen und einer verfehlten Landwirtschaftspolitik in den Entwicklungsländern. Einen sehr guten Artikel von Caroline Boin und Alec van Gelder gibt es dazu hier:
Rising food prices could be a blessing in disguise
Rising food prices have caused street protests from Mexico to India to Senegal. But this could be a blessing in disguise if it makes governments eliminate the trade barriers that exacerbate high prices: the poorest countries will benefit most from dropping their own tariffs. ...
Many development analysts are obsessed with subsidies to farmers in rich countries, now extended to biofuels, and the damage it inflicts on the world’s poor.
But it is the world’s poorest countries that impose the highest barriers against trade with each other: agricultural exports between sub-Saharan countries face an average tariff of 33.6 per cent, the highest of any region on Earth. A whopping 70 per cent of the world’s trade barriers are imposed by governments in poor countries on people in other poor countries.
Alhaji Ahmed Abdulkadir, a presidential adviser in Nigeria, has said: “I can assure you that my pen is always ready to ban more items as long as they are available in Nigeria.” These would be “either banned completely and where we have doubts, we will impose high tariffs.”
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