Posted on 30 September 2009. Tags: Barack Obama, Doha Round, Financial Regulation, Trade, World Trade Organization
The G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh provided what those meetings usually provide–rhetoric and not much chance. I wanted to highlight one point from the president’s press conference there: Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Let me ask you, while we were inside this very safe and secure and beautiful convention center, some 5,000 at least demonstrators […]
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Posted on 21 July 2008. Tags: Doha Round, Trade, WTO
I suppose if you like going to Geneva–which strikes me as a pretty boring city–there is no harm going there to take in the sites and kick back. But, if you are a trade minister or official using public money to attend the Doha round trade meetings as an actual cover to go to […]
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