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The failure of the IMF, World Bank and WTO to represent and further the interests of the developing world, through their one-size-fits-all approach, has lead to the collapse of trade negations, widespread criticism of their effectiveness, and bitter international protest. Many countries are rejecting the neoliberal ideologies of the ‘unholy trinity’ with intensifying calls for their reform or decommissioning.

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How Doha died: A Ringsider’s View

Regarded as one of the leading experts on Philippine trade and agriculture issues, Riza Bernabe was interviewed on the latest collapse of the WTO "Doha Round" trade negotiations. By Walden Bello.

Manufactured Famine

Where once they used gunboats and sepoys, the rich nations now use chequebooks and lawyers to seize food from the hungry. The scramble for resources has begun, but - in the short term at any rate - we will hardly notice, writes George Monbiot.

Globalization: Leaving the WTO Behind

We need a new economic paradigm globally that can discipline harmful corporate practices while actually increasing growth, reducing poverty, and expanding sustainable development globally, argues Deborah James.

The International Trade System Needs to Reinvent Itself

The collapse of WTO talks has brought the problems of the international trade system to the surface. It is now time to overhaul a 'free trade' system that protects corporate globalisation at the expense of poverty eradication and sustainability, says Myriam Vander Stichele.

What Caused the WTO Collapse? It was the Cotton Subsidies, Stupid

The WTO talks actually collapsed because the US did not want to make any commitment to cut its massive subsidies to cotton growers – regardless of pushing cotton farmers in developing countries further into penury, writes Devinder Sharma.

‘‘Doha Collapse Won't Mean Suffering for The Poor’’

As we rapidly move away from a unipolar or bipolar world towards multiple centres of economic and political powers, the WTO - with liberalisation at its core - is at a crossroads, writes Aileen Kwa.

The Dracula Round

After Doha, the WTO is now in a worse position than before, with the prospect that it will evolve like the old League of Nations in the 1930’s: present but powerless, argue Walden Bello and Mary Lou Malig.

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