STWR - Share The World's Resources

The collapsed Doha Round has staved off a further import surge into the developing world - which would have been no less devastating than the trail of human destruction left behind by a powerful tsunami, argues Devinder Sharma.

With the collapse of the Doha round, disappointment is turning to recrimination. But what did poor countries have to gain anyway? By Raj Patel.

Liberalisation in world trade over recent decades has brought prosperity only to a minority of the world population, and without firmer guarantees many countries began to agree with the view that "no deal is better than a bad deal", writes David Loyn.

The WTO negotiations have turned into a fight by developed countries to open markets in developing countries to favor their big companies, writes Evo Morales.

Ignore the urgent rhetoric surrounding the Doha round of trade talks. It's time for a rethink, says Paul Rayment.

Current U.S. trade policy is far from 'free trade', but simply a one-sided protectionism that is designed to redistribute income from less educated workers to more educated workers, writes Dean Baker.

The problem with the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is that trade isn't really 'free', and North America - at least as portrayed in the summits - doesn't actually exist, writes Laura Carlsen.