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Uruguay Round

Today, power imbalances like these, enshrined in the Uruguay Round of the WTO, are estimated to cost poor countries around $700 billion each year in lost export revenues.

on US/EU being allowed to subsidise agriculture while poorer countries can't (because market size determines leverage in negotiations)

—p.23 One (7) by Jason Hickel
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structural adjustment programs

Leveraging debt, they imposed 'structural adjustment programs' that reversed all the economic reforms that global South countries had painstakingly enacted.

—p.22 One (7) by Jason Hickel
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mandarin

having culminated in the production of generations of left mandarins without the sophistication (or cultural capital) that the epithet mandarin once connoted

—p.186 On Literary Studies (179) by Marco Roth
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declension

the land is constantly remade, changing its name like a noun going through successive declensions

—p.176 On Nature Writing (170) missing author
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fissiparous

the fissiparous nature of American institutions has helped stop Trump

—p.41 Triumph of the Shill (31) missing author
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