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Is World Bank Starting to Understand Growth?

The Straits Times | February 12, 2002 | Analysis By DANI RODRIK [professor of political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University]

Globalization; As the World Shrinks

Los Angeles Times | February 10, 2002 One salient feature of globalization is loss of control. By MITCHELL KOSS, Mitchell Koss is a producer for Channel One News. His, work has appeared on public television's "Nova" and "The NewsHour, with Jim Lehrer," and on ABC and MTV.

Meanwhile, in Another World

The Economist | February 9, 2002

Supachai Says China Will Focus on Commitments, Not Take Lead in WTO

Inside US Trade | February 8, 2002 The incoming director general of the World Trade Organization on Feb. 5 predicted that China's focus in the trade body would be on living up to its accession commitments and avoiding disputes, but that the country could also serve as a bridge between developing and developed countries.

WTO Members Agree on Negotiating Procedures, Structure

Inside U.S. Trade | February 8, 2002

Cut Off by Taliban, Remote Northern Afghanistan District Now Receiving Aid, Long-Term Agriculture Assistance

AScribe Newswire | February 5, 2002

Equitably Sharing a Stake in the Future

Business Times (Malaysia) | February 7, 2002

Brazil Forum More Local than Worldly

New York Times | February 7, 2002 | By Simon Romero PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - The 40,000 people who gathered here for the World Social Forum, the antiglobalization alternative to the World Economic Forum in New York, had adopted the motto, "Another world is possible."

Developing Countries Could Earn Three Times the Aid They Receive if Subsidies Are Removed, WTO Says

Associated Press | February 7, 2002 | BY: TOM MALITI; Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya - Developing countries stand to earn at least three times more in exports than the international aid they currently receive if developed countries drop domestic agricultural subsidies, the World Trade Organization's top official said Thursday.

Campaigners March against Pan-American Free Trade Pact

Morning Star | February 6, 2002 TENS of thousands of anti-globalisation campaigners marched through Porto Alegre, Brazil, yesterday to protest against plans for a pan-American free trade pact.