World Trade Organization
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THREE ORGANIZATIONS COLLABORATE TO HELP DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HANDLE TRADE LITIGATION
Officials from 26 developing countries are exploring new ways of handling legal disputes in trade in a week-long event organized jointly by three Geneva organizations, starting on 30 April 2012.
> Press release:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres12_e/pr661_e.htm
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TROIS ORGANISATIONS COLLABORENT POUR AIDER LES PAYS EN DÉVELOPPEMENT [...]
Developing countries to boost farm trade as Russia joins WTO – study
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Contact: Jonathan Hepburn, Agriculture Programme Manager
Tel. 0041 22 917 87 56; jhepburn@ictsd.ch
(Geneva, 30 April 2012). Developing country farm exports are set to grow substantially in months ahead as Russia joins the World Trade Organization, a new study finds – with increased consumer demand and lower import duties driving the trend.
Expanded access to Russia’s [...]
High level meeting to discuss services reforms and negotiations for development in Sub-Sahara Africa
Press Contact: Kiranne Guddoy, kguddoy@ictsd.ch
NAIROBI, KENYA - The workshop “Positioning services reforms and negotiations for development” will bring together experts and policy makers from national governments, Regional Economic Communities (REC), the private sector and other non state actors throughout Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) for a comprehensive overview of the various efforts to reform and integrate services [...]
Proposed Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement Gets Traction at Copenhagen Meet
The first gathering of the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) announced the launch on Wednesday 12 October of a number of public-private collaborative initiatives, including the pursuit of an international agreement aimed at ensuring policy frameworks that enable trade in sustainable energy goods and services.
Initiated and hosted by the Danish government, the gathering brought together [...]
‘Greener’ farm subsidy policy could lower EU output capacity, but distort trade - study
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Press Contact: Jonathan Hepburn
T: +41 22 917 87 56; jhepburn@ictsd.ch
Geneva, 11 Oct 2011
New ‘greening’ measures in the EU’s proposed €418-billion post-2013 farm policy could lower the bloc’s agricultural production potential by raising farm input costs by €5 billion, or around 2 percent, a new study reveals.
The draft paper, written by Prof. Alan Matthews [...]