Eminent call-girls
Aaargh! Yet another knee-jerk call in the Financial Times for “wise” men (and women) to guide WTO out of it’s slough. Third, in lieu of the WTO ministeri...
Tag: globalization
Invisible magic
The hallmark of global economic integration is the smearing of origin. Most of the interesting things we import comprise component parts or other i...
The future of longevity
While there is so little activity on trade agreements or negotiations and only promises of innovation in trade policy, I’ve been paying closer att...
The world is not flat
The World Development Report 2009 is a wonderful excursion through economic geography: with some interesting background papers too (like this from Marius Brul...
Sub-prime not a failure of ‘globalization’
I noted my disagreement with Dani Rodrik's view that the 'sub-prime' loans crisis signalled a failure of international coordination in financial market regulati...
Borders matter
One of the central contentions of my book Global Trade Advocate is that borders have grown in importance as a consequence of the economic processes a...
Optimists on WTO: now there are two of us
A long-time campaigner for Greenpeace (Chairman of Greenpeace South East Asia), ‘social justice’ advocate, and member of the ICTSD Board, WaldenBello ...