Whereas China could get healthy much earlier, because they applied the knowledge of education, nutrition, and then also benefits of penicillin and vaccines and family planning.

Had the Bush administration fulfilled its commitments, Americans taxpayers would have benefited from the elimination of huge agricultural subsidies a real boon in this era of yawning budget deficits. Americans would have been better off as consumers, too, with increased access to a variety of low cost goods from poor countries.