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In a speech at Deutsche Bank in Berlin Thursday (Oct. 6th), World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy commented on the future of the multilateral trading system and advocated for WTO members to "keep multilateral cooperation ...
Like a photograph, numbers can also be worth a thousand words. With little need for lengthy comment, they have a way of bringing us back to reality. In this case, we are talking not percentages ...
Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's insistence that recent US actions regarding China will not trigger a trade war, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated that China would keep its currency stable in order ...
Just as many thought cap-and-trade was dead in the United States,California –the eighth largest economy in the world– introduced a statewidecarbon-trading program. Can one state put a whole nation back on trackand send a ...
Russia, Ukraine and six other former Soviet republics signed a free trade agreement (October 10) that observers say may be the first step toward the ‘Eurasian Union’ promoted by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. On ...
One of the last barriers to Moscow’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) was removed in Brussels (October 21) when an agreement was reached resolving an auto parts dispute between Russia and the ...
After nearly 15 years of international talks to regulate airlines’ carbon dioxide emissions there is still no agreement on how to do so. Which is why the European Union has taken it upon itself to ...
An Accessible, Clear and Concise Account of International Trade Understanding Global Trade focuses on what lies at the core of globalization: international trade and production across national boundaries. It might seem too ambitious a scope ...
Following a long and difficult mediation by Switzerland to overcome objections from Georgia to Russian membership in the WTO (World Trade Organization), an agreement was reached (November 2) to allow Russia full membership by the ...
The Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) has sealed the deal for Russia’s acceptance as a full-fledged member of the 153-member trade body when it comes up for a vote at the WTO ministerial meeting ...
Leaders of 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have agreed on the broad outlines of an ambitious free trade accord for promoting innovation and growth to kick-start world economies. The TPP agreement was announced ...
Interview with Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization, WTO. Confronting the difficulties of closing the Doha Round, the WTO is under pressure to find a way to rebound. Handling the ‘wheel’ is one thing ...
After 18 years of negotiations, the initial bid by Boris Yeltsin for Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1993 has finally paid off. The long-lasting negotiations hold the current organization’s ...
Leah McGrath Goodman, author of The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market, talks to the Global Journal about the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the floating trading ...
Abdalla Abbas former Director, UN-HABITAT, Geneva Office Eugene Adoboli former Prime Minister, Togo Manuel Agosin Dean and Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Chile Yilmaz Akyüz former Director, UNCTAD Xavier ...
Open letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Appointment of the next Secretary-General of UNCTAD Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Later this year, you will be nominating to the General Assembly your choice of the next Secretary-General ...
In this interconnected world, what happens in one country has a ripple effect throughout the global system. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton understands that, which is why she convened a global business ...
Syria is a sharp reminder of precisely why we need a strong Arms Trade Treaty. The distressing scenes of ferocious and unrelenting military assaults on Syrian cities, are a sharp reminder that the world needs ...
The trade debate is once again on top of the agenda, and will soon return as a subject of discussion for governments around the world. Only a few weeks after South Africa and Denmark announced ...
Check out if Saferworld is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! People-focused conflict prevention. Over 20 years of action and advocacy. Initially launched in 1989 as a politically independent think-tank focused on nuclear proliferation ...
Never has the world witnessed a large market emerge so quickly as China. As the economy grows, it is also changing. China is fast climbing the value curve, transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to innovation-led growth ...
The chief of Russia’s consumer protection agency, Gennady Onishenko, warned that his country might limit the import of Ukrainian agricultural products by May 2012. The announcement came after an initiative by the Ukrainian authorities ...
Unlike the European and (grumbling) American airline companies, China refuses to pay charges imposed by the European Union on carbon emissions. "The Civil Aviation Administration of China recently issued a directive to Chinese airlines that ...
International governance is often discussed in fora designated by cryptic letters. The ‘Gs’ have referred to the Group of 8 (G8), the Group of 7 (G7), the Group of 2 (G2) and now the Group ...
The bizarre confusion of morals in the global arms trade was brought to light late last week when the U.S. Department of Defense went on a PR offensive to justify their buying attack helicopters ...
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, addresses an audience at Bilkent Univeristy Ankara upon receiving a Doctorat Honoris Causa, 15 March 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, Being with you in "bilim kenti," the city ...
The Executive Director of the UN Environment Program and the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Achim Steiner sat down with The Global Journal to discuss his views on the transition towards a green economy ...
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