Archive - Nov 1, 2006

G33 slams “flawed” World Bank paper on special products

31 October, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Nov06/2)
The Group of 33 in the WTO has complained to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz about a paper on Special Products (SPs) produced by the Bank which the Group says contains a serious misrepresentation of the purpose and effects of SPs.

Doha proposals would lead to heavy losses, few benefits

31 October, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Nov06/.1)
The proposed deals of the Doha Round negotiations to date would cause developing countries generally to incur much more costs than the negligible benefits that would go to a few, and the present pause in the negotiations should be welcomed so that a rethinking of the negotiations can be undertaken.