China and the World Trade Organization: A Long March Towards the Rule of Law (Global Trade Law Series)
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
As head of the World Trade Organisation Pascal Lamy has evolved a famously hardedged style; perhaps just the right one to unlock the stasis of the Doha Round.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Former member of Planing Commission, Anwarul Hoda on Saturday said India's proposal to reform the functioning of the World Trade Organisation is not 'coherent'. The five-point proposal by India has been supported by almost all WTO member countries and formally endorsed by the United States, Europe and China.
Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Reuters (Creamer Media’s Engineering News Online, Johannesburg)As the Doha Round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) stumbles into its ninth year, a group of 22 developing countries are poised to clinch their own deal to cut tariffs and boost trade among themselves.The deal to expand the General System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) could be announced during the WTO’s forthcoming ministerial...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
India has proposed urgent reforms in the operation of the World Trade Organization, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
After the Doha Round impasse exposed the internal contradictions in the World Trade Organisation's style of functioning, India has proposed a near-radical package for reforming the world body.
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prospects for reaching a deal in the eight-year old Doha Round of global trade negotiations were remote; now, they’re truly distant. On Nov. 30, trade ministers of the 153-nation World Trade Organization (WTO) hold their ministerial conference in Geneva , but their agenda doesn’t even mention negotiations. It is officially defined ...
Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs.
Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Indigenous peoples in the Pacific have found the great ocean of Kiwa, a spiritual &cultural home for thousands upon thousands of years. We lived in harmony with our environment and each other; we were self-sufficient and had 100% of our lands, Culture, custom and language. White supremacist, Capitalist Imperialism & genocide shattered that world for many Indigenous peoples in the Pacific last...
Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
WTO_Demo2.jpg , originally uploaded by ntisocl . On November 30, 1999, Capitol Hill became a battleground as police clashed with protesters and the city's downtown core erupted in confrontation . The World Trade Organization had come to Seattle bringing all the world's problems with it -- and exposing plenty of Seattle's along the way. Not every moment was warfare. Much of the protest and activism...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Spokesman says trade commissioner has not yet decided whether to attend crucial World Trade Organisation meeting after her unexpected elevation to foreign policy role Trade commissioner BaronessBaroness Ashton will take up her duties as Europe's new foreign policy chief on 1 December, halfway through a critical summit of world trade ministers in Geneva, and will be without a permanent replacement...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
George Lakoff, UC Berkeley professor of linguistics and cognitive science, discusses framing, ie the construction via language of "a conceptual...
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
SciDev summarizes the conclusions from a new report undertaken by Asian research institutes: “The notion that climate technology cannot be transferred to a developing country unless it has strong intellectual property laws — a cherished belief among developed countries — has been called into question by a new study. Five Asian research institutes collaborated to evaluate [...]
Free Market Mojo (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
From the Telegraph: 1. Smoot-Hawley The most famous act of protectionism took place in the 1930s when the US government, facing the early forces of depression, legislated to impose tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods – some significantly. The act triggered a spiral of retaliatory protectionism across the world, and in the view of some economists, fuelled both the Great Depression and the geopolitical...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saturday, November 21, 2009 : SEATTLE (PAI)-Ten years ago on Nov. 30, 1999, 50,000 people protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle. The protests succeeded in delaying the summit's opening day, and contributed to the collapse of plans for a new round of trade negotiations. It was one of those rare moments in history when ordinary people rise up and can no longer be ignored....
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Social and economic implications of Social Computing The European Commission JRC, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies released a comprehensive report on social and economic implications of Social Computing [aka Web2.0, social media]. ‘The Impact of Social Computing on the EU Information Society and Economy’ (Eds.) Yves Punie, Wainer Lusoli, Clara Centeno, Gianluca Misuraca and...
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abdulruff | 07/07/2009
Scope of Obama-Medvedev Discourse in Moscow - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal US, Russian Presidents Obama and Medvedev are in Moscow for their first full-fledged summit on major global issues and world is expected to approach the upcoming summit...
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