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forcing farmers who traditionally grew beans, rice, and corn for domestic consumption to plant non-traditional agricultural exports such as ornamental plants, flowers, melons, strawberries, and red peppers industries that exported their products were eligible for tariff and tax exemptions not available to domestic producers. Meanwhile, Koren wrote, structural adjustment agreements removed support for domestic production while the North pressured Southern nations to eliminate subsidies and barriers to trade, Northern governments pumped billions of dollars into their own agricultural sectors, making it impossible for basic grains growers in the South to compete with the Norths highly subsidized agricultural industry. Koren extrapolated her Costa Rica analysis to make a broader point: Structural adjustment agreements shift public spending subsidies from basic supplies, consumed mainly by the poor and middle classes, to luxury export crops produced for affluent foreigners. Third World countries were not seen as body politics but as companies that needed to increase revenues and decrease expenditures
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