China Alone Abides by Commitments to World’s Poorest

By Raul de Sagastizabal The WTO member countries are moving towards the Eighth Ministerial Conference in Doha next December, again with no concrete results, even on issues relating to least-developed Countries (LDCs), recognized by the member countries’...

Is there a Role for Human Rights in a Free Trade World?

Up to 50,000 people a day die from poverty related causes with 22,000 of these fatalities being children under the age of five. The plight of the world’s most impoverished and vulnerable people have been further aggravated by the current global financial...

Trade Not Aid?

Despite pledges on the part of donor countries in 1970 to spend 0.7% of GNP on official development assistance (ODA), this target is still proving elusive 40 years later. However, many would argue that ODA is not the best way to tackle poverty and its...

Poverty in the Southern Hemisphere

Despite the wondrous technological developments and global wealth generated since the start of the 19th century, billions of people continue to live in the direst conditions of poverty. One of the most prevalent and widely quoted of these poverty measures...

Global trade sees worst fall in over 60 years

Global trade has suffered severely from the global downturn, falling by 12 per cent in 2009, the worst decline in over 60 years Pascal Lamy, the head of the World Trade Organization revealed Wednesday during a visit to Brussels. In March of 2009, the...

WTO Sees Global Trade collapse by 9%

Global trade will shrink by 9 percent this year in the most devastating collapse Share

Japan’s exports fall by 46 per cent

In January, Japan’s exports have fallen by 46 per cent. Share