Nicola Bullard* By trying to find a balance between the present and the future without a fundamental rethinking of development, the Bruntland Commission’s approach to sustainability looks – in hindsight – naïve. Yet at the...
Read More[Espanol ] Nicola Bullard* This article, along with others, was published in Critical Currents, No 1, May 2007, Dag Hammarskjod Foundation. {xtypo_dropcap}G{/xtypo_dropcap}iven the centrality of oil not only to current...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard* IN the personality-free world of trade negotiations, Pascal Lamy is instantly recognisable. His close-shaved hair and a lean-and-hungry look earned through long distance running and formidable work...
Read MoreTHE emergence of the G20 as a force in the WTO negotiations was one of the many factors contributing to the collapse of talks at the 5th ministerial held in Cancun last September. The G20 – named to commemorate the...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard BANGKOK, 9 September — More than 3,000 people took to the streets of central Bangkok this morning kicking off the wave of global protests against the WTO by marching on the embassies of the EU...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard* BANGKOK, 5 Sept. — AS Cancun approaches, it is timely to consider what can be learned from the access to drugs campaign launched in the lead-up 2001 WTO ministerial and which bore its bitter fruit...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard Just two weeks into the war on Iraq, journalists and politicians were already starting to see the useful tie-in between the breakdown in transatlantic relations and the deadlock in the WTO. The timing is...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard According to the publicity, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an economic forum composed of twenty-one counties bordering the Pacific, and accounts for 46 per cent of the world’s trade and...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard LEADERS at the recent G-15 meeting in Kuala Lumpur made it clear that the Multilateral Agreement on Investment being negotiated by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and which many see...
Read Moreby Nicola Bullard* Why is no-one saying the truth? Why is no-one admitting that Thailand’s economic crisis is the predictable consequence of a development model which is deeply flawed, profoundly unfair in its distribution...
Read Moreby Nicola Bullard* Apart from the brouhaha of the annual leaders’ summit one of the year’s best photo opportunities APEC rarely gets a mention in the economic pages, let alone the headlines. But although APEC may be...
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