id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005196938 United States Catholic Conference. Statement on proposed reforms of U.S. overseas investment and trade policies for the 1970's : to the United States House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee 1973 .txt text/plain 6508 250 51 Because there is no differ- entiation in the bill between goods imported from rich countries and those imported from poor countries, this protectionist provi- sion can only be interpreted by Third World countries as yet another proof of what they have long alleged: that rich countries determine to their own advantage the rules of world trade 33 and that the biggest obstacle to the economic growth of poor coun- tries is the variety of restrictive trade policies imposed by the rich countries. Three principal means of providing economic resources to poor countries are available to rich countries: financial aid, in- vestment capital and international trade. cache/_005196938.txt txt/_005196938.txt