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Doha drifts again
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| | September 29, 2009, 00:31 IST |
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end,” is what the G20 leaders conveyed to their trade negotiators at the Pittsburgh summit last Friday.
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Back to the future
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| | September 01, 2009, 00:34 IST |
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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” would be a timely reminder for 40-odd trade ministers when they meet in New Delhi this week.
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The colour of WTO rules
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| | August 18, 2009, 00:58 IST |
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It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice,” said Deng Xiaoping as he presided over the Middle Kingdom’s plunge into market-led economic policies.
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World Trade Ordeal
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| | August 04, 2009, 00:03 IST |
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Much like the famous tale of the group of blind men and the elephant, the Doha trade negotiations have now degenerated into an interminable source of conflict over what the mandate entails.
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A Trips-plus agenda at WIPO
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| | July 21, 2009, 00:25 IST |
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ is a timely reminder for key actors who are bent on pushing failed agendas.
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Labouring over capital
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| | June 23, 2009, 00:14 IST |
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In a world replete with paradoxes, it is not unusual to witness big surprises.
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Celebrating Kamal Nath's exit in the West
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| | June 09, 2009, 00:45 IST |
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A Cabinet reshuffle in New Delhi but celebrations in Geneva! That’s what happened when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced some major changes to his Cabinet for the second term.
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My way or the highway
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| | May 12, 2009, 00:52 IST |
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If the rules don’t suit you, change them.
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Boycotting anti-racism!
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| | April 28, 2009, 00:17 IST |
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Global conferences are like ships in troubled waters — caught in the rough currents of colliding views and acrimonious exchanges, they find it difficult to reach their actual destinations.
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Sauce for the goose...
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| | April 14, 2009, 00:59 IST |
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Trust but verify.
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The G-20's empty cupboard
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| | March 31, 2009, 00:17 IST |
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Jobs, justice and climate,” is the war cry of thousands protesting to G-20 leaders who will congregate in London this week.
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Hope and despair at the G-20
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| | March 17, 2009, 00:45 IST |
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When will the Schumpeterian perennial gale of creative destruction that started from the credit and housing bubble in the US slow down?
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Missing the woods for the trees
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| | March 03, 2009, 00:39 IST |
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People are frightened and this is not the time for trade agreements,” said Bill Clinton, the former United States president, during a recent meeting in Switzerland.
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Globalisation in retreat
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| | February 03, 2009, 00:06 IST |
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Credit in Latin, the embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at Davos, means “belief” and “trust.
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Fixing those castles in the air
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| | January 20, 2009, 00:26 IST |
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost,” said Henry David Thoreau, an outstanding American author, poet and philosopher of the 19th century.
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