By Aileen Kwa Market access on ‘essentially all’ products for LDCs. This was not a new stunt; it was a replay of the PR (public relations) job that the developed countries were attempting to pull-off in Seattle. The...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal The latest policy product of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) – is unlikely to make a dent on either poverty or...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard In the absence of ideas, the IMF and the World Bank are trying to re-create themselves as the white knights leading the charge against poverty. Take, for example, the debate between the IMF’s Michael Bell...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello In his 4th of July speech in1821, US President John Quincy Adams cautioned the young republic not to “go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Such a trajectory, he said, would involve Washington “beyond the...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard When thousands of peaceful protestors shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle last year, the rich and the powerful realised that they had a problem. Not only were the dissenting voices were getting louder and...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Director General of the WTO, Mike Moore appeared shallow and defensive during his various performances at the UNCTAD X conference. His analyses and comments lacked nuance and subtlety, as compared to some of his UN...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello The veto of the German candidate for the IMF Managing Director post, Caio Koch-Weser, by the United States and his endorsement by the European Union was the second major confrontation between the US and Europe in...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello The veto of the German candidate for the IMF Managing Director post, Caio Koch-Weser, by the United States and his endorsement by the European Union was the second major confrontation between the US and Europe in...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral body that elicits fear, anger, and exasperation throughout the South. This, despite the oft-repeated claim by WTO apologists that by providing a set of rules...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard In the past months, commentators and politicians have started grumbling about non- government organisations and their apparent influence on the trade debate. The UK international development secretary Clare...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard In the past months, commentators and politicians have started grumbling about non- government organisations and their apparent influence on the trade debate. The UK international development secretary Clare...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Key Pointsท The agenda of the WTO, the implementation of its agreements and the much praised dispute settlement system advances the interests of developed countries, while those of the developing countries...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello The following article came out in Business World (22 November, 1999) and other Asian newspapers.)"Make sure to bring your raincoat," Anuradha Mittal of Food First, the famous food security advocacy...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard The International Monetary Fund’s announcement that poverty reduction is now at the centre of its lending programmes was greeted with incredulity by many activists and journalists in Washington for the...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Developing Countries’ Silence in the AIE ProcessDeveloping countries (not including those of the Cairns Group) have jointly managed to produce a paltry number of 4 papers out of a the 45 (as of December 1998)...
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