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With the World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference – arguably its most important ever – happening next week, attempts to keep it ‘on life support’ may be counterproductive.

Now that much of Europe has announced its intentions to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), was Washington’s initial opposition a mistake? Assuming the AIIB does get off the ground, what might it mean for future competition between the world’s two largest economies in the arena of global development finance and, by extension, in the realm of soft

Steven Colatrella on the global wave of strikes and uprisings which has been the working class response to austerity measures pushed by national governments and global governance bodies like the IMF, G20 and the World Bank.

India’s free trade agreement aspirations remain insufficiently ambitious. That’s because they don’t align practice with sound economic or national security theory. The proposed FTAs lack ambition. They don’t restrain protectionist domestic economic constituencies or synthesise with India’s national security interests, writes Raj Bhala.

The latest UN assessment of prospects for least developed countries notes recent setbacks without finding any silver lining on the horizon.

“The outlook for LDCs is grim”. The latest United Nations (UN) assessment of prospects for the least developed countries (LDCs) notes recent setbacks without finding any silver lining on the horiz

“The outlook for LDCs is grim”. The latest United Nations (UN) assessment of prospects for the least developed countries (LDCs) notes recent setbacks without finding any silver lining on the horiz

The 130th Canton Fair, being held from Friday to Tuesday, is expected to boost global trade at a time when the global economic recovery has been foundering.

Grupo de Cairns en la OMC: apremia reformar esquemas de subvenciones a la agricultura

After remaining in a lull for a couple of years the Afghan political stalemate is escalating again following the NATOs withdrawal of troops. Taliban and other radical extremist forces are at the forefront once again to capture political power through violent means defying all democratic norms.