Posts tagged…Protection

A modest proposal for the ‘G-20’ summit

Sun, Nov 09 2008
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The IMF's Managing Director should not try to talk down expectations for next weekend's summit. We deserve much more from these leaders that, so far, have done little to match their promises of reform of global governance over the past decade.

The G-20's role should be to set up the best conditions for a recovery in real markets, not just in financial markets. But, on their past behavior, it is…

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Australian food trade barriers revealed

Wed, Aug 13 2008

The World Bank's World Trade Indicators (WTI) are a relatively new, but very powerful, way of describing global trade policies and regulations. Their simplified metrics help to reveal the 'big picture' that emerges from a blizzard of trade and tariff data collected by the UN and WTO. Their method is theoretically sound but—as always—has limits and perspectives that need some interpretive…

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Obama’s policies called “protectionist and silly”

Wed, Feb 27 2008

In a review by two UK economists of Obama's support for the "Patriot Employer Act"

"Sen. Barack Obama’s proposal is reactionary, populist, xenophobic and just plain silly. It is time for him to stop pandering and to show the world that hope and reason are not mutually exclusive. Instead of increased protectionism, the United States might increase its competitiveness by sensible investments in…

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Must do list for agriculture negotiations

Thu, Nov 03 2005

Testing le d’fi fran’ais on Agriculture

Fri, Oct 28 2005

Timing is (almost) everything in WTO negotiations

Fri, Oct 21 2005

WTO agriculture market access - the movie

Sun, Oct 16 2005

Review of “Global Trade Advocate” in FT

Mon, Sep 26 2005

Agriculture in an Australia-Japan FTA

Sat, Sep 17 2005

The thunderer lets fly

Tue, Aug 23 2005

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