Catégorie Medias

RTS – Papandréou exhorte le Parlement à voter le plan

Le directeur de l’Organisation mondiale du Commerce (OMC) Pascal Lamy a estimé lundi que les difficultés de la Grèce ne mettaient pas en danger l’ensemble de la zone euro, en raison de son faible poids économique.

RTS – OMC: échec de la réunion du G6 à Genève

Les 149 pays membres de l’OMC vont devoir se résoudre à suspendre sine die leurs efforts pour instaurer un meilleur ordre commercial mondial après l’échec lundi à Genève des discussions entre les « Six grands ».

Forbes – Good News from the WTO

WTO chief Pascal Lamy’s speech at the GA yesterday was pretty unsurprising but there was some good news and some interesting commentary at the presser that followed.

Forbes – Yuan Currency Revaluation Won’t Have A Big Impact

« If you look at a sort of 10 to 20 years basis, the influence of currency valuations on competitiveness and trade flows is very marginal, » he told Steve Forbes in an Intelligent Investing interview on June 24.

Interview for Forbes about trade

Forbes: Global trade fell about 12% in 2009. What caused this precipitous fall? How does global trade look this year and what can be done to increase global trade? Lamy: The picture this year is much brighter, but you are right, last year was a bad year for trade. There were two things that lead […]

World trade contracted 12 percent in 2009: WTO’s Lamy

Global trade contracted by about 12 percent in 2009 but has started to pick up, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Wednesday. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said the Organization had revised its previous estimate of a contraction of about 10 percent in 2009 but gave no forecast for 2010. « World […]