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Conjuring Growth from the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP
2016-05-26 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: It is now generally agreed that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has served US foreign policy objectives well. For this purpose, the Peterson Institute of International Economics (PIIE) has provided the fig-leaf for the empire's new clothes with exaggerated projections of supposed growth gains from the TPP. The only US government study, by the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, also uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to find modest growth gains from...
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