Battles in the WTO
Author : Martin Khor
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789670747408
Author : Martin Khor
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789670747408
Author : Eddie Yuen
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Explains the WTO Protests as the birth of an original social movement, the most important and vital burst of activism in 25 years. Here diverse and sophisticated radical/left interpretation is combined with divergent opinions on the question of violence, race and the future. Essays and contributions from Stanly Aronowitz, Alexander Cockburn, Peter Lanborn and Medea Benjamin plus an original interview with Noam Chomsky that questions Chomsky's understanding of social movements.
Author : Janet Thomas
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 9781555911089
November 30, 1999, is seen as a day of infamy-the day the World Trade Organization was battled head-on in Seattle. Media coverage, with its images of gas masks, tear-gas victims, bullying cops, rampaging hoodlums, and ruffled WTO dignitaries, presented a riveting picture of violence in the streets. But there was another battle of far greater consequence. People from around the world converged that day to show solidarity for working people and to voice their concerns about child labor, the environment, and global economic justice.
Author : Kevin Danaher
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Developing countries
ISBN :
Author : Mitsuo Matsushita
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199571856
This is a comprehensive overview of the law and practice of the World Trade Organization. It begins with the institutional law of the WTO, moving eventually to the consequences of globalization. New chapters on Trade in Agriculture and on Government Procurement and Trade.
Author : Craig VanGrasstek
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The History and Future of the World Trade Organization is a comprehensive account of the economic, political and legal issues surrounding the creation of the WTO and its evolution. Fully illustrated with colour and black-and-white photos dating back to the early days of trade negotiations, the publication reviews the WTO's achievements as well as the challenges faced by the organisation, and identifies the key questions that WTO members need to address in the future. The book describes the intellectual roots of the trading system, membership of the WTO and the growth of the Geneva trade community, trade negotiations and the development of coalitions among the membership, and the WTO's relations with other international organisations and civil society. Also covered are the organisation's robust dispute settlement rules, the launch and evolution of the Doha Round, the rise of regional trade agreements, and the leadership and management of the WTO.
Author : Martin Khor
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Developed countries
ISBN :
Text of this paper was circulated at the South Summit, Havana, Cuba, 10-14 Apr 2000.
Author : John Head
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9047440366
This book offers a new perspective in examining the key global economic organizations - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank (and its regional counterparts), and the World Trade Organization. Aimed at ordinary informed readers, the text draws upon the author's many years of familiarity with these organizations to evaluate them from a legal and policy perspective, touching on issues of "mission creep," "democracy deficit," and more. The book depicts such issues as the central struggles in a "Global Development War" that is now being lost because of certain ideological and institutional failings that currently afflict the global institutions. That war can be won, the author asserts, only by adopting an ideology of liberal, intelligent, participatory, multilateral, and sustainable human development.
Author : David Solnit
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904859635
A collection of short essays celebrating and reclaiming the story of WTO resistance. Media distortions and activist myths are investigated and refuted by award-winning authors Rebecca and David Solnit. Before the tear gas settled, the real battle had begun: over whose version of history would triumph. These pithy insights into media spin and truth provide a timely re-assessment of the ongoing image of the Seattle protests and question the brazen lies that continue to appear in the mainstream press.
Author : Chad P. Bown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815704186
The World Trade Organization—backbone of today's international commercial relations—requires member countries to self-enforce exporters' access to foreign markets. Its dispute settlement system is the crown jewel of the international trading system, but its benefits still fall disproportionately to wealthy nations. Could the system be doing more on behalf of developing countries? In Self-Enforcing Trade, Chad P. Bown explains why the answer is an emphatic "yes." Bown argues that as poor countries look to the benefits promised by globalization as part of their overall development strategy, they increasingly require access to the WTO dispute settlement process to protect their trading interests. Unfortunately, the practical realities of WTO dispute settlement as it currently stands create a number of hurdles that prevent developing countries from enjoying the trading system's full benefits. This book confronts these challenges. Self-Enforcing Trade examines the WTO's "extended litigation process," highlighting the tangle of international economics, law, and politics that participants must master. He identifies the costs that prevent developing countries from disentangling the self-enforcement process and fully using the WTO system as part of their growth strategies. Bown assesses recent efforts to help developing countries overcome those costs, including the role of the Advisory Centre on WTO Law and development focused NGOs. Bown's proposed Institute for Assessing WTO Commitments tackles the largest remaining obstacle currently limiting developing country engagement in the WTO's selfenforcement process—a problematic lack of information, monitoring, and surveillance.