03/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - In a speech on Thursday in Ougadougou (Burkina Faso) the Director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Köhler, described US and EU subsidies for various important products for developing countries as "perverse". "I know that the United States alone is spending $2 billion (annually) for its cotton subsidies…, more than the total production of sub-Saharan Africa of cotton and the same goes for sugar in the European Union - they are spending more than 2...