World Trade Organization

La Farm Bill y La Agenda De Doha

May 20 NAMA modalities

New modalities for the negotiations on NAMA

The WTO Will Not Solve the Food Crisis

If I hear Pascal Lamy say one more time that the Doha Round will help solve the current food crisis, I am going to explode! For months, the WTO chief has used every public opportunity (and then some) to push for the completion of the WTO’s trade round to solve the current food crisis.

Puede la Ronda de Doha de la OMC resolver la Crisis Alimentaria Mundial?

Los lideres de las instituciones financieras y del comercio mundial - Organizacion Mundial del Comercio (OMC), el Banco Mundial, el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y la Organizacion Economica para la Cooperacion y el Desarrollo (OECD) - estan promoviendo el logro de la conclusion de la Ronda de Doha de negociacion de acuerdos comerciales de la OMC, como una manera de solucionar la actual

7 Reasons Why the Doha Round Will Not Solve the Food Crisis

Leaders at the WTO and World Bank are pushing for a Doha Round to help solve the food crisis, but here are seven reasons why they are wrong.

Can High Agriculture Prices Spur Development?

Trade ministers gathering in Accra, Ghana for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) should take steps to support agriculture and manage supplies to address price volatility, according to a new paper by IATP.

The Multilateral Trade and Investment Context for Biofuels: Issues and Challenges

This paper explains how international trade and investment rules will influence the development of the global biofuels sector.  

The Global System Needs a Makeover

The UN, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank should engage in pragmatic negotiations to strive for a higher common denominator for multilateral relations.

Possible Flexibilities for developing countries in NAMA, February 2008

A list of possible flexibilities for developing countries in the non-agricultural market access negotiations (NAMA) developed by the Chair of the negotiations, Ambassador Stephenson from Canada.

Is Free Trade an Insurance Against Financial Turbulence

Perhaps it is not surprising that WTO Director General, Pascal Lamy, never misses an opportunity to promote the potential benefits of increased trade liberalization. According to Lamy (and other free trade advocates), trade expansion is the solution to every major problem the world faces.