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Developing Nations Attack Trade Proposal

The Washington Post | By Steven Gray | August 26, 2003 Developing countries yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the latest proposed outline for a trade agreement to be considered at the upcoming meeting of World Trade Organization ministers in Mexico, saying the document failed to fully reaffirm the group's commitment to eliminating farm subsidies.

Trade Summit Ready For Onslaught

Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) | By Doreen Hemlock | August 25, 2003 With just three months to go before Miami hosts a historic Americas trade ministers' meeting, organizers say they're on track to raise at least $10 million to fund the event -- much of it for security to handle as many as 6,000 delegates and 100,000 protesters expected to attend.

The Stark Reality of Globalisation

Africa News | The Nation | August 23, 2003 There is first the theory of globalisation. And then there is the reality of it.

The Quiet War Over Open-Source

Washington Post | By Jonathan Krim | August 21, 2003 Every day now, it seems, we do battle with technology. If it isn't spam, it's worms. If it isn't the worms, it's viruses, or hacking, or identity theft. Sometimes, it's the gadgets and software we buy that are still too hard to use.

Justified Cynicism About Cancun

Africa Analysis | August 22, 2003 THE cynicism and anger, about the US and European Union, expressed by a number of African trade ministers in Mauritius in June (Africa Analysis , no.425), appears to have been justified. At the time, the ministers condemned what they saw as the hypocrisy of the EU and US, in particular, regarding free trade.

Groups Score Lack Of Transparency In WTO Talks

BusinessWorld | By Iris Cecilia C. Gonzales | August 21, 2003 BANGKOK, Thailand - The World Trade Organization's (WTO) failure to fully open trade negotiations to all its members, particularly poorer countries, will continue to hinder the organization's success.

African Countries Against Singapore Issues on WTO Agenda

World Markets Analysis | By Andrea Bohnstedt | August 21, 2003

Tariffs, Subsidies, Trade and All That

Public Agenda (Ghana) | August 17, 2003 In this era of globalisation one of the certainties of visiting a developed country like Ghana, is the perceptible western lifestyle one sees on the streets, hotels and even homes. This is made possible by the intrusion of powerful transnational multi-media that bombard homes with the `so-called western virtues.'

Brazil, India, China Table Counterproposal To U.S.-EU Farm Framework

Inside U.S. Trade | August 20, 2003 Brazil, India and China today presented their own version of a framework for agricultural negotiations in the World Trade Organization as a counterproposal to one championed by the U.S. and European Union last week.

Will Cancun Be a Real Development Round?

Carnegie Endowment for Peace | August 14, 2003 As the World Trade Organization meets in September to kickstart the stalled "development round" of trade talks, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace identifies the real challenges negotiators face, debunks facile free trade slogans, and offers recommendations for the negotiation tables.