Today we're pleased to introduce you to B-SPAN, the World Bank's new Internet-based "web"casting station. B-SPAN is a window into a unique world that offers the public an opportunity to see what is being discussed and debated inside the World Bank on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With less than 48 hours left in the Clinton administration, the U.S. Trade Representative's office Thursday said it had initiated a study of the possible environmental impact of potential new trade agreements covering services and agriculture.
Reuters / By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The World Economic Forum on Tuesday revealed the line-up for its annual meeting of political and business leaders in Davos, and denounced "professional trouble-makers" expected to demonstrate against globalisation.
Welcome to Western Australian CITIZENS' VOICE AGAINST GLOBAL CORPORATE CONTROL Newsletter- NOVEMBER 2000 http://members.iinet.net.au/~jenks/CV8.html#gats
GATS: A monster in the making
By William Dhlamini
JOHANNESBURG November 14 (IPS) - Larger markets are essential if African countries are to restructure their heavily agriculture dependent economies, attract investment and make their voices heard in global forums such as the World Trade Organisation, says Kingsley (K.Y.) Amoako, the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa.
International Trade Reporter / Volume 17 Number 44
The United States and other member countries of the World Trade Organization expect to begin talks early next year on developing new rules to govern global trade in services, but U.S. industry sources said Nov. 1 that the plan is now being opposed by India and Hong Kong--two highly influential members of the organization.
By Ruth Caplan
Although activists and developing countries stopped the Millennium Round of negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, negotiations on services and agriculture are going on right now.
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
There is no policy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank that is more stupid, cruel and brutal than the insistence that poor countries charge fees for children to attend school and for people to access basic health services.
Associate Press / D. Ian Hopper, AP Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With protests and disruptions becoming a fixture of World Trade Organization meetings, two senators on Wednesday proposed establishing a "Global C-Span" to televise its proceedings and those of other international institutions.
By DIRK BEVERIDGE, AP Business Writer
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - Their voices may have been hoarse from chanting "smash the IMF," but anticapitalist activists began screaming with joy as the world's top financiers closed their summit a day early.
