Brink Lindsey's analysis of the new Oxfam study showing that international trade is the best hope for the world's poor is just about pitch-perfect. Here's the nut graph:

If the Oxfam study's shortcomings are considerable, they pale in comparison to its virtues. The report shows that embracing international markets is consistent with left-of-center sensibilities -- that's huge. Furthermore, it provides a "progressive" rationale for reducing trade barriers here at home -- at a time when support for market-opening agreements has all but disappeared in the Democratic party. Oxfam aims to launch a major trade campaign based on the analysis and proposals in its study. Friends of open markets should wish this new ally all the luck in the world.

Sounds like Oxfam has figured out what the Democratic party still hasn't -- that Bill Clinton and the DLC were right about trade all along.
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