Full Coverage: Trade

26.07.2006 Indian trade experts are unanimous that no deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) augurs better for India than a bad deal but developed nations will continue to put pressure on developing countries to open up their markets.

26.07.2006 Lakhs of the worldÂ’s poorest farmers, many of them in India, will remain shackled to the existing system of rigged rules and double standards in trade rules following the suspension of the Doha round of development trade talks, says a press release by British charity Oxfam.

25.07.2006 After the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva, ActionAid, an international development agency, sees new opportunities to create a people-friendly future for fair trade. Read press release and a backgrounder from ActionAid India on the failed WTO talks.

25.07.2006 Even as the global trade talks collapsed in Geneva, India has blamed developed countries for not making substantial cuts in trade-distorting farm subsidies. The Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation now looks set to be suspended for the next few months.

11.07.2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has sent a letter to the G8 +5 leaders (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa) urging them to reach an agreement in the Doha round trade talks when they meet in St. Petersburg, Monday, July 17. The letter was addressed to each of the leaders and sent to them on Friday evening.

04.07.2006 As trade liberalisation negotiations head into the make-or-break stage, the World Trade Organisation has stepped up pressure to establish concrete numbers for concessions -- a none-too-small task given criticisms against the industrialised North's "self interest", and growing divisions among developing countries.

03.07.2006 A just-released UNDP report on the Asia-Pacific highlights that while the region has made significant overall trade gains, this should be accompanied by strategies designed to combat `jobless growth' and reverse the neglect of agriculture.

Strategic, rather than indiscriminate, integration into the global economy remains the key to successfully managing globalisation.