Thursday 8 January 2009

Challenges for WTO

The WTO announced this week that its Director General Pascal Lamy will run unopposed for a new tenure. The challenges facing Mr Lamy and the WTO are outlined by Dr Carolyn Deere of the Global Trade Governance Project at Oxford University.

She says:
"Amidst global debates on financial instability, on climate, on energy, on the massive explosion of private standards, technology transfer, and on food security as well as on development and the reduction of poverty, the WTO should not and cannot claim all global problems as its turf or demand to be the forum for their discussion, but to ensure trade policies and laws do not thwart solutions but supports them, governments do need to decide where and how to discuss inevitable linkages".

(Their link to trade resources)

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