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Safeway Highways Brings Better Coffee

Graham Watson

12th May 2017

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Proof of the importance of infrastructure to development: this World Bank clip looks at how the development of a new highway between Dili and Ainaro has the capacity to change lives, by allowing coffee farmers better access to coffee markets.

Safeway Highways Brings Better Coffee
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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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