Development

Rich World""s Trade Ministers Discuss New Trade Round

Agence France Presse PARIS, June 25 (AFP) - Trade ministers from almost 30 industrial countries will discuss prospects for further world trade liberalisation here this week, their first meeting since failing to launch a new trade round in November.

Thousands Attend Geneva Anti-Globalisation Protest

Agence France Presse GENEVA, June 25 (AFP) - As many as 6,000 people took to the streets here Sunday in a demonstration organised by anti-globalisation groups on the eve of the United Nations special world summit on social development.

Statement on a New Round: Joint Statement by the EU and US

European Commission - DG Trade

Clinton, EU Leaders Meet on Trade, Health

By Randall Mikkelsen QUELUZ, Portugal (Reuters) - President Clinton and European Union leaders began a summit Wednesday expected to focus on deepening trade disputes between the United States and Europe, the world's largest trading partners.

IMF""s Poverty Consciousness Overlaps World Bank Borders

Australian Financial Review / By Joanne Gray, Washington Just days before he starts a "listening tour" of Asia, the International Monetary Fund's new managing director, Mr Horst Koehler, has hinted that the global lending agency should narrow its focus to crisis management.

Mbeki Lashes WTO, Globalisation

From Business Report / Independent Newspapers, South Africa / By Peter Galli San Francisco - The failure of globalisation to effectively address the needs of developing countries was one of the main reasons behind South Africa's high unemployment rate and lack of foreign investment, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.

ADB Pledges to Fight Poverty

Reuters Asia's top banking showcase drew to a close on Monday amid tight security with promises of a region-wide fight against poverty. The last day of the Asian Development Bank annual meeting in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai focused on an ADB plan to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into targetted anti-poverty programmes.

Quad Group Expected to Offer LDCs Better Deal at WTO

By Brian Kenety BRUSSELS, May 2 (IPS) - The 'Quad Group' of countries - the European Union (EU), the United States, Canada and Japan - are expected to announce at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ruling body May 3 that they are ready to dismantle duties and quotas on 99 percent of imports from the world's 48 least-developed countries (LDCs).

According to OECD, Global Prospects Will Be Largely Influenced by Situation in China

EU Could Begin to Export Cereals Without Subsidies from 2004; Concerns Over American Subsidies

WTO Chief to Sound World Trade Rallying Call

From an ICC Press Release Paris, 26 April 2000 - World Trade Organisation Director-General Mike Moore is expected to use a major congress of world business leaders next week to sound a rallying cry for the WTO and give his assessment on the outlook for China's accession to the WTO.