Free trade (not agreements) will make Britain great
To judge from most of the “progressive” press and my Twitter feed, there is a great deal of ruin in Brexit. I hear that Britain is so integrated into the E...
Tag: wto
Governed by the gutless?
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and tra...
A bearish view of global governance
If there were a ratings agency for the credibility of “global governance” institutions, the WTO’s would have been downgraded to a “B” at best[1] aft...
Irresitsible engines
Glen Steven’s questions, in his inaugural Warren Hogan lecture, about the expectation of emerging Asia — that they will assume a prominent role shapin...
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...
Competition policy in PTAs
Here’s a surprise…or is it? According to the WTO’s 2011 annual report, the most common WTO-extension (WTO‑X) provision of preferential trade agreement...
WTO embraces the irresistible
WTO’s annual World Trade Report for 2011 signals a turning-point for the soon-to-be-Doha-less Organization. It attempts to provide a rationale for aban...