STWR - Share The World's Resources

The World Trade Organisation is unfit to address the needs of the world's poor. There should be no attempt to resuscitate the current global trade talks.

Nearly eleven years after the WTO came into existence, as the impasse over a multi-lateral trade regime continues, it is the ‘development’ aspect that has been sacrificed at the altar of international trade, argues Devinder Sharma.

As developing countries acquire a powerful voice, the US shuns multilateral trade deals because it can no longer get its own way.

The WTO is entering the last stages of talks to determine the rules of the global economy for the next 20 years. The developing world is set to suffer

The IMF’s meeting this spring was lauded as a breakthrough, with officials given a new mandate for “surveillance” of the trade imbalances that contribute significantly to global instability. The new mission is crucially important, both for the health of the global economy and the IMF’s own legitimacy. But is the Fund up to the job?

Greenpeace was dismissive of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling, due to be released today, on a US-sponsored case which was attempting to force EU countries to accept genetically engineered (GE) organisms, in spite of overwhelming public opposition in Europe.

IMF wins mandate for ‘multilateral surveillance’