Cotton, child labor and instability

Posted on July 15, 2009 by admin | No Comments

The June 13-19 issue of the Economist has a good analysis of the suicide attacks that took place at the end of May in Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, one of the heaviest cotton-growing areas.  

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