"Sutainable development," "environmental protection" and "trade that works for the poor" may sound like do-gooder slogans, but three totally different projects, involving a plant native to South Africa, a fashionable resort in Brazil and organic spices in India, achieve exaclty that.
There are some stories that tell good news. It is worth keeping this in mind in a world where bad news sells, fed by a steady diet of headline-grabbing slogans and superbly crafted but frequently hollow generalizations by the forces of "anti" - anti-globalization, anti-trade liberalization. It is hard to get a hearing for the infinitely moving stories behind the small, grass-roots, low-cost projects, …