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Stephen Kehoe returns to PepsiCo as corporate affairs chief. From PR Week

The World Trade Organization announced this week that it expects global trade to grow much slower than originally projected. WTO analysts, who projected global trade would grow by 2.8 percent this year, now expect it to grow by 1.7 percent, the lowest rate since 2009. Trade growth rates in North America contributed to the WTO’s revised projection. Analysts now expect the region’s imports to grow by 1.9 percentage points, a significant drop from the 6.5 percent growth rate in 2015.

President Obama should press Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to abandon India’s obstructionist position.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce congratulates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil and looks forward to working closely with him to strengthen the vital hemispheric partnership between the United States and Brazil. “Brazil is a key strategic partner to the U.S. business community in important areas with global impact such as food security, energy transition, and regional integration. The Chamber looks forward to ...

Last summer, the Trump administration was shocked when its preferred candidate for director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) placed a distant third—far behind China’s Qu Dongyu. Qu’s victory put Chinese nationals in charge of 

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Le multilatéralisme “doit être repensé et adapté à son objectif”, dit la DG à des diplomates brésiliens —

Concerns about globalisation have intensified in recent years. A recent survey from the World Economic Forum revealed that while three-quarters of those surveyed thought expanding trade was a good thing, less than half thought globalisation was good for their own country. This column argues that globalisation contributes broadly to prosperity and freedom, but that it must be

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