Asia Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The recent collapse of the Doha Round of trade talks raised misplaced cries that an opportunity was being lost to lift millions of people out of poverty. The round was based on a myth, and reforms happen because countries find greater openness to be in their best interest.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Lamy, who was recently in New Delhi to canvass for the deal, said a successful Doha Round would lead to 60 per cent reduction in ...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
GENEVA: The US wants officials to resume international trade talks in September after a meeting of ministers collapsed without a breakthrough last month, US trade chief Susan Schwab was quoted as saying. She said on Wednesday that senior officials from a small group of countries should meet next month to explore the possibility of restarting the Doha round negotiations at the World Trade Organisation...
Business Spectator (Free subscription) | yesterday
US to revive Doha trade talksBy Jonathan Lynn of ReutersGENEVA -- The United States wants officials to resume international trade talks in September after a meeting of ministers collapsed without a breakthrough last month, US trade chief Susan Schwab was quoted as saying.She said in an interview with specialist newsletter Inside US Trade on Wednesday that senior officials from a small group...
Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
(WASHINGTON) World Bank president Robert Zoellick said on Monday that a disputed farm safeguard proposal that torpedoed the WTO Doha Round of international trade talks needs limits, and urged negotiations to resume.
Trade Africa (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
It's a safe bet most of the 6 billion people around the world are going about their business today oblivious to the fact that the World Trade Organization's Doha round of free trade talks died recently. Even people involved daily in ongoing international trade aren't reacting much differently. They're buying and selling goods across borders and oceans, dealing with the logistical complications...
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
DOHA ROUND - Details of what was agreed... WHAT WAS AGREED BUT.. . WHAT THIS MEANS FOR Laces Services - General But Laces had called for Poor countries will find it even Agreement on Trade in an assessment of the harder to protect and support their Services being further impact...
PSD Blog - World Bank Group (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Yesterday in the Guardian, Bjorn Lomborg, the director the Copenhagen Consensus Center, lamented the failure of the latest round of Doha negotiations. Lomborg had this to say: Establishing significantly freer trade would help the world combat almost all of its biggest problems. For an astonishingly low cost, we could improve education and health conditions, make the poorest people richer, and...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Bjorn Lomborg laments the failure of the DOHA round because of petty protectionism. The best way to fight poverty in the poor countries of the world is free trade! Anderson showed that if developing countries cut their tariffs by the same proportion as high-income countries, and services and investment were liberalized, the annual global gains could climb to US$120-billion, with US$17-billion...
On Line Opinion - Latest Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Doha round ended in failure - but it disguised broadening areas of consensus.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Centre will soon hold talks with India Inc to get their response on the proposed inclusion of market-opening provisions called 'sectorals', in the final agreement at the Doha Round talks of the WTO.
International (Free subscription) | yesterday
SUCCESSFUL TRADE TALKS CAN BOOST GLOBAL ECONOMY AND LIVELIHOODS, SAYS UN OFFICIAL New York, Aug 21 2008 1:10PM A successful outcome to global trade talks is vital to strengthening the world economy and improving the livelihoods of millions of poor and vulnerable people, the head of the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP) said today, following the recent collapse of the Doha round of...
Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
SUCCESSFUL TRADE TALKS CAN BOOST GLOBAL ECONOMY AND LIVELIHOODS, SAYS UN OFFICIAL New York, Aug 21 2008 1:10PM A successful outcome to global trade talks is vital to strengthening the world economy and improving the livelihoods of millions of poor and vulnerable people, the head of the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP) said today, following the recent collapse of the Doha round of...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
"I have heard nothing to lead me to conclude that either candidate would abandon the Doha round," Schwab said. "There are only a handful of us who are political appointees. The folks who have developed these negotiating positions, the senior officials who represent the United States year-in, year-out in Geneva are, for the most part, career officials" who will remain after Bush leaves office....
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... Another unknown was the prospects for the global trading system after the failure of the latest Doha Round talks in Geneva. Within some ASEAN countries, urgent domestic economic and political issues loomed large, and made it hard for governments to focus on building ASEAN cooperation. Mr Lee said this made it even more necessary for parliamentarians to set the tone in ASEAN cooperation,...
