Development

Moore to Offer Mini-Package; Hopes for Consensus on Four Major Issues

World Trade Organisation chief Mike Moore hopes to forge greater consensus on four global trade issues, including agriculture and free market access for the least developed countries, during his visit for the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

Liberalize Trade? Yes and No

Paris, Monday, January 31, 2000 By Martin Khor International Herald Tribune

Clinton Urges Dialogue on Globalization

LA Times Trade: At economic forum, president stresses U.S. commitment to open markets as means to bridge world's rich-poor gap. By ROBIN WRIGHT, Times Staff Writer

WTO, Agricultural Deregulation and Food Security

Published in Foreign Policy In Focus, Volume 4, Number 34, December 1999. Can deregulated world markets ensure food security for the world? No negotiator of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could honestly say that this was the first intent of the agreement. Yet, the AoA preamble lists food security as one of the legitimate "non-trade" objectives of agriculture policy.

Trade: ""Singapore Issues"" Face More Opposition

SUNS #4541 | November 1, 1999 | south-north development monitor SUNS

New WTO Chief Pledges All Efforts for Poor States

Yahoo! Headlines World | September 1, 1999 | By Robert Evans GENEVA - Mike Moore, taking over as new head of the World Trade Organisation, pledged on Wednesday that he would devote "all efforts" to help poor countries to benefit from freer global trade. He also called on the richer powers to play their part by throwing open their markets to goods from poorer regions.

World Grain Shortage and the World Food Summit

A memo from Mark Ritchie summarizing the need for a global campaign for supplay managment and grain reserves. This memo led to the drafting of an Action Plan submitted to the FAO in Rome, November 1996.