Global Governance, Institutions, Institutional Reform News

Globalization Tames the Left in Brazil
September 7, 2024 - Tom Palley, YaleGlobal Online Magazine
Brazil elected a progressive president, yet failed to tackle a long legacy of economic injustice. Instead, President Lula da Silva, a trade union activist born into poverty, was timid with economic policies: Playing it safe, Brazil embraced its traditional role of exporting resources abroad and allowing other countries to manufacture and innovate.  Go...

“Globalization” for Americans is Really About Income Distribution
September 6, 2024 - Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
“Globalization” is one of the major challenges facing American workers – which includes not only factory and office workers but more than 80 percent of our 144 million-person labor force. But it is widely misunderstood. Most of the people writing and talking about globalization for the major media know little about economics, and of the few who know something, most are dodging the most important issues.  Go...

Lamy senses will to revive WTO talks
September 5, 2024 - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - WTO chief Pascal Lamy says the political will may exist to revive stalled global trade talks, but negotiations can resume only if countries compromise on the main stumbling block of agriculture, according to remarks published on Wednesday.  Go...

Over 100,000 to attend world economic congress in Kenya
September 1, 2024 - Daily Nation- Kenya's largest circulation newspaper
More than 100,000 delegates descend on Nairobi in January for a major conference aimed at saying No to the economic domination of poor countries by the rich.  Go...

Q&A; with George Soros
August 20, 2025 - The Boston Globe
- There are times in the book when it seems you are opposed to the global economy and to what is often called globalization. Is that so?

SOROS: No. I'm not opposed to globalization. But I consider the current form of globalization flawed. It's flawed because we have global markets but don't have political institutions to match...  Go...

No easy answers on effect of freer capital
August 21, 2025 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The macroeconomic effect of removing restrictions on capital flows into and out of developing countries remains uncertain and policymakers should be wary of extreme arguments for or against such moves, an International Monetary Fund study said on Monday.  Go...

Will a Phoenix Rise From the Ashes of Doha’s Collapse?
July 27, 2025 - Sophia Murphy and Carin Smaller, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
[T]he real reasons for the negotiations’ demise lie in fundamental mistakes made more than five years ago, when WTO members agreed to the Doha Agenda in November 2001.  Go...

The Poverty of Energy Security
July 14, 2025 - Neil Watkins and Steve Kretzmann, tompaine.com
When the G-8 met in Gleneagles last year, global poverty and climate change headlined the agenda. This weekend in St. Petersburg, energy security tops the list, and last year's priorities seem forgotten. The G-8 appears to define energy security primarily as promoting the expansion of oil production worldwide, which will only further increase oil dependence, exacerbate climate change and drive countries deeper into debt.  Go...

Talks suspended. ‘Today there are only losers.’
July 24, 2025 - World Trade Organization
The Doha Development Agenda negotiations are to be suspended because gaps between key players remain too wide. Heads of delegations, speaking in an informal meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee on 24 July 2006, agreed with WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that this will be a setback for all members.  Go...

Body blow to world poor as World Trade Organisation talks sink
July 24, 2025 - Press Statement, Christian Aid
Last night’s failure by rich countries to reach agreement on trade talks strikes a terrible blow at poor people and puts the entire World Trade Organisation in jeopardy.  Go...

USTR Press Conference
July 24, 2025
Transcript of Press Availability on the Doha Development Agenda with Ambassador Susan C. Schwab and Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture WTO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland 07/24/2006  Go...

Trade talks collapse spells bad news for Africa
July 24, 2025 - Business Day
JOHANNESBURG - The collapse of global trade talks was bad news for Africa, condemning the world’s poorest continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging competitiveness, officials and experts said today.  Go...

India Inc disappointed by WTO, farmers relieved
July 24, 2025 - Financial Times
New Delhi, July 24: Indian business leaders said on Monday they were disappointed with the collapse of global free trade talks but a local farm group said it was relieved.  Go...

NAM backs Bush for insisting on Doha Round ambition
July 24, 2025 - Reliable Plant news service
The National Association of Manufacturers on July 24 commended the Bush Administration and particularly the U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Susan Schwab, for refusing to agree to an unambitious outcome to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations.  Go...

TRADE TALKS DEADLOCK BRINGS NEW HOPE FOR THE POOREST AND THE ENVIRONMENT
July 24, 2025 - Press Statement, Friends of the Earth International
Campaigners from Friends of the Earth International today welcomed the collapse of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s trade negotiations. This means that there is now time to review and reconsider the multilateral trading system in its entirety.  Go...

Why Today‚s Collapse of the Doha Round Negotiations is the Best Outcome for Developing Countries
July 24, 2025 - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Bangkok, July 24—Today’s collapse of the Doha Round negotiations of the World Trade Organization in Geneva is one of the best things to happen to the developing world in a long while.  Go...

WTO Talks Breakdown - Opportunity for a New Approach - Badly Needed Reform Must Put Peoples’ Interests First
July 24, 2025 - Press Statement, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Minneapolis/Geneva - Today’s breakdown of world trade talks provides an important opportunity for WTO members to inject some fresh thinking into the international trading system that puts the interests of working people around the world at its center, said the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).  Go...

WTO Talks Collapse Over Disputes
July 24, 2025 - BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, The Associated Press
GENEVA -- Global commerce talks at the World Trade Organization collapsed Monday as top powers failed to agree on steps toward liberalizing trade in farm and manufactured goods.  Go...

Greenpeace to governments: “Face it, Doha is dead.” Time has come to look at alternatives to WTO
July 24, 2025
As Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy failed to break the deadlock in global trade talks, Greenpeace called on governments to face the facts and abandon the flawed trade negotiations started in Doha in 2001. Greenpeace said that governments should use this opportunity to build a new global trade system, one based on equity and sustainability.  Go...

"We have missed the last exit on the motorway"
July 24, 2025
Trade Commissioner says US "unwilling to accept or... acknowledge flexibility being shown by others"  Go...

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