In the three years of planning for the United Nations conference on development held last month in Monterrey, Mexico, U.S. negotiators steadfastly insisted that the conference was not about more public aid. U.S. negotiators argued that aid had, at best, a mixed record, and that the benefits of international trade revenues now dwarf any conceivable level of public aid.
This article was published in Third World Resurgence, Issue No. 129-130, 2002. The EPA, despite having done only limited testing at that time, was prepared to approve the release of a genetically engineered bacteria designed to convert crop waste into alcohol.
Take the Ministers of Trade from 142 countries, a few hundred journalists, NGOs, and business lobbyists, tens of thousand of police and military for security, and you have the makings of one of the most surreal events in recent international diplomacy history -- the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar.
Take the Ministers of Trade from 142 countries, a few hundred journalists, NGOs, and business lobbyists, tens of thousand of police and military for security, and you have the makings of one of the most surreal events in recent international diplomacy history -- the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar.
Opportunity Lost on Aid?
In the three years of planning for the United Nations conference on development held last month in Monterrey, Mexico, U.S. negotiators steadfastly insisted that the conference was not about more public aid. U.S. negotiators argued that aid had, at best, a mixed record, and that the benefits of international trade revenues now dwarf any conceivable level of public aid.GE Release Could Have Ended Life on Earth
This article was published in Third World Resurgence, Issue No. 129-130, 2002. The EPA, despite having done only limited testing at that time, was prepared to approve the release of a genetically engineered bacteria designed to convert crop waste into alcohol.Doha Ministerial: Measuring Success
Analysis of the Doha Ministerial.Fighting to a Draw in Doha
Take the Ministers of Trade from 142 countries, a few hundred journalists, NGOs, and business lobbyists, tens of thousand of police and military for security, and you have the makings of one of the most surreal events in recent international diplomacy history -- the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar.Fighting to a Draw in Doha
Take the Ministers of Trade from 142 countries, a few hundred journalists, NGOs, and business lobbyists, tens of thousand of police and military for security, and you have the makings of one of the most surreal events in recent international diplomacy history -- the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar.Joint Civil Society Statement for Assessment of Trade in Services
Request to the WTO for an assessment of the GATS treaty on market access to gauge the affects of trade liberalization.Joint Civil Society Statement for Assessment of Trade in Services
Request to the WTO for an assessment of the GATS treaty on market access to gauge the affects of trade liberalization.Transmission of Recommendations by the General Council to the Ministerial Conference
The WTO Membership is faced with an unprecedented situation.Transmission of Recommendations by the General Council to the Ministerial Conference
The WTO Membership is faced with an unprecedented situation.Mockery of a Multilateral Trading System: Who Is Accountable?, A
An initial look at the unarticulated and non-transparent process leading up to the 4th WTO Ministerial Meeting.