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Dipak Patel or the art of formulating trade policy with limited resources

Dipak Patel belongs to the new generation of african policy makers in every sense of the word. Because, he is leading the group of under developed countries in their drive to arouse the attention of the wto to the consequences of agricultural subsidies.

As the trade minister of zambia, his country lacked the necessary demographic and economic clouts not to mention online and business information sources to enable him formulate an effective trade policy. And despite all these odds, he is forging ahead to draw the attention of the world to the predicament of the underdeveloped world.