Catégorie Trade
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.
Acceptance Speech at the « Global Economy Prize », Kiehl Institute
Photo AP The 2010 Global Economy Prize was awarded to Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization by The Kiel Institute, 20th June 2010. Here is his acceptance speech Ein deutscher Freund erklärte mir neulich sein Verhältnis zur französischen Sprache : « sie ist wie meine Frau, sagte er: ich liebe sie sehr und […]
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 […]
The Hindu – Lamy reappointed WTO chief
Geneva/New Delhi (PTI) The WTO on Thursday announced the re-appointment Pascal Lamy as its Director-General, who has been heading the multi-lateral agency since September 2005, making strenuous efforts to conclude a global trade deal.
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