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Reuters 10:44 AM | November 12,2009
Finance ministers from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum began meeting on Thursday to discuss how to strengthen the post-crisis global economy
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Jonathan Lynn / Reuters 06:18 PM | October 23,2009
WTO Doha talks make no progress despite intensive meetings; 2010 target for deal won’t be met at this rate
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12:44 AM | October 19,2009
There may be grounds to give LDCs some concessions in trade talks, but a demand for early benefits is nothing but political blackmail
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Asit Ranjan Mishra 11:55 PM | September 04,2009
Trade ministers agree to conclude the talks next year; negotiators, WTO officials to prepare an agenda for action
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Reuters 12:00 PM | September 04,2009
The ministers want to find a way to inject momentum into the faltering negotiations in Geneva on the Doha round, launched in late 2001 to help developing countries prosper by opening up world trade, rather than negotiate specific issues themselves
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Penny Macrae / AFP 10:00 PM | September 03,2009
Commerce minister Anand Sharma asks member countries to remember that any new pact must help the poor
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PTI 01:59 PM | September 03,2009
It is only through a trade-opening global pact that issues like distorting subsidies or generating market access can be addressed, the WTO chief emphasised
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Asit Ranjan Mishra 01:00 AM | August 24,2009
Issues such as agricultural subsidies cannot be sorted out bilaterally, they require multilateral fora
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09:12 PM | August 05,2009
WTO director general Pascal Lamy seems to have picked up on Indian commerce minister Anand Sharma’s optimism on the Doha round. But we aren’t holding our breath
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AFP 12:21 PM | August 04,2009
He said that he would use global trade talks to be held in New Delhi on 3-4 September as a platform to make the case that concluding this round by the end of next year will be in the interest of all
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Ed Cropley / Reuters 09:46 PM | August 02,2009
Lamy said the Geneva-based body was maintaining its forecast of a 10% contraction in global trade this year as a result of world recession and the freeze-up in trade credit precipitated by financial crisis
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PTI 05:06 PM | July 26,2009
The WTO chief is expected to play a referee’s role in his attempt to bridge the divide between the developing and developed nations
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Rajkumar Ray / Reuters 02:37 PM | July 24,2009
The Doha Development Round was launched in late 2001 to boost global trade and help developing countries increase exports by lowering trade barriers
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Reuters 04:45 PM | July 22,2009
World Trade Organisation director-general Pascal Lamy said that it was too early to see if measures to improve trade financing were working
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Reuters 12:52 PM | July 22,2009
The WTO report noted that trade rose 2% in real or volume terms in 2008 after rising 6% in 2007 of which the share of developing country was 38%
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