Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Apr 21 2008
Secretary-General Ban warns against impulses towards protectionism
The forces of trade and globalization that have driven a “virtuous cycle” of economic prosperity around the world in the last two decades must be allowed to continue or the current crisis in poor countries over soaring food prices will only worsen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Apr 21 2008
Trade and investment keys to spurring Africa’s growth, says Ban Ki-moon
Increased trade and investment, particularly in agriculture, are crucial if Africa is to achieve the kind of growth needed to meeting its development targets, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Apr 21 2008
The People's Summit New Orleans
Official website of the civil society movements protesting the gathering of presidents of US, Canada and Mexico in New Orleans.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Apr 18 2008
Many divergences still in latest UNCTAD-XII draft text
This article provides an overview of the main areas of divergence between basically the G-77 and China (representing developing countries) and developed countries (including the EU and the US) in relation to specific paragraphs of the UNCTAD XII draft text of 9 April 2008.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Mar 24 2008
Development: the emergence of the South
The UNCTAD Trade and Development Board held a special session at which the Secretary-General told delegates that next month's UNCTAD-XII conference comes "at a time when the world is in a period of uncertainty, with credible fears of recession."
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Mar 14 2008
One last spurt for the WTO's Doha talks
The WTO is making one final push to conclude its Doha Round, whose main ‘modalities’ must be concluded in the next few weeks. But it is difficult to get a good deal done in time. By Martin Khor.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Mar 03 2008
African Civil society groups urge a stop to EPAs
A group of over fifty civil society and social movements from Africa have called for a stop to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between Europe and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Feb 29 2008
Fast track at WTO, although no fast track in the US
The absence of US fast track is in sharp and ironic contrast to the highly accelerated time schedule set for WTO members by its Director-General Pascal Lamy.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Feb 22 2008
The story of a Dutch letterbox which could cost Bolivia a fortune
Telecom Italia's case against Bolivia at a secretive World Bank tribunal, ICSID, heralds an increasingly pro-corporate approach against southern countries under the aegis of the EU's Global Europe project.
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Trade and Regional Integration
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Jan 30 2008
AU takes decision on EPAs
Executive Council of the African Union has approved that no African region should be allowed to sign the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union "as long as the draft agreement is not submitted and discussed at the continental level."
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