Widespread disagreement may mar WSSD

Multilateral fillip

Global trade talks back on track but real work lies ahead

Sense of service

Caution should be exercised while liberalising the services sector

CBD versus WTO

Heavy levy

US adopts a tough stand on softwood imports from Canada, imposing a 27 per cent duty on the imports

Surviving on trade

WTO and drugs

What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?

Safeguards missing

Africa's lax biopiracy laws leave its rich biodiversity exposed

Tradition incorporated

Patents are welcome only if the traditional rights of people are protected

A fish called subsidy

Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development

Healing touch

WTO pact inked on cheap drugs for poor countries

Tariff row

WTO invalidates US duty on steel imports

Conditional support

Russia throws a lifeline to Kyoto Protocol, but at its own terms

Marooned!

Island states feel isolated

Road to Cancun - Waivers on paper

The only semblance of fairness that exists in the various agreements of the World Trade Organization is contained in their 155 "special and …

"No case for a multilateral framework"

Nagesh Kumar , director general of Research and Information Systems on Non-Aligned and Developing Countries, a development research organisation, …

Greening WTO

Delegates from 130 countries debate linkages between trade and environment

Banning gm foods

Food as carrot

In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?

The South should work with NGOs

Walden Bello , co-director, Focus on the Global South, a research institute in Thailand, has done extensive work on the East Asia Miracle Paradigm.…

White ruling

France wins a landmark ruling on asbestos against Canada

Who won it?

Achieve development

The market, simply, cannot be left alone

Thread less in 2005

Why weavers in Belgaum, Karnataka, can not go to market

Royalty wars

Drug inventors row over profits from avian flu