Pascal Lamy

Trade tangles ahead

The financial turmoil and the recessionary winds that it has fanned have claimed many victims, from arrogant investment banks on Wall Street to small toy companies in the export hubs through China’s Pearl River data. Much has...

G20 summit's achievement was getting momentum going

As the hullaballoo over the weekend's activities in Washington fades and interest turns to the likely agenda for the next Group of 20 summit in London in April, you could be forgiven for thinking the meeting was low on...

India wont compromise on farmers issue at WTO: Nath

Two days after world leaders agreed to try and conclude the Doha Round negotiations of the World Trade Organisation by this year-end, commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath on Monday, said though it was possible to convene...

ICC Commission on Banking discusses trade finance problems at WTO

Members of the ICC Commission on Banking Technique and Practice and representatives from international financial institutions, private banks, and other experts met at the WTO last week to analyze the shortage of trade finance...

Lamy calls for action on Doha trade talks

By Alan Beattie in London and George Parker in Washington Leaders insisted the call for a breakthrough by year-end in the troubled Doha round of trade talks represented real progress, but gave no signs of specific concessions...

Statement by Catherine Ashton on the Doha Round, following G20 Summit Communiqué

The Doha Development Agenda Statement by EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton on the Doha Round, following G20 Summit Communiqué Brussels, 16 November 2008 Following the strong call from the G20 leaders for an open global...

Gordon Brown urges G20 leaders to coordinate tax cuts

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has intensified calls or coordinated global interest rate and tax cuts as world leaders continued to hammer out a new regulatory framework to deal with the deepening financial crisis.

Bush hails summit a 'success'

US President George W Bush has hailed this weekend's global economic summit a success, with the leaders of the Group of 20 advanced and developing economies agreeing to work together. World leaders grappling with the worst...

WTO faces calls for ministerial meeting

The World Trade Organisation is facing growing calls from both sides of the Atlantic for a fresh ministerial meeting before the year is out to clinch a liberalisation deal that has proved elusive for seven years. The last...

A trade summit?

Small but meaningful Doha progress is possible A NUMBER of scholars and policymakers have called on the G20 leaders to commit this weekend to finishing the Doha round of trade talks and forming a united front against...

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