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India: Hindus & Muslims
August 7, 2008, Comments Off on India: Hindus & Muslims

7 August 2008 Violence runs through this ‘stable’ India, built on poverty and injustice The country the west ...

Commodities and co-dependency
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Commodities and co-dependency

This thoughtful piece by Kenneth Rogoff was written in 2005. In light of the collapse of the Doha round, it bears readin ...

Moscow to seize grain export controls
July 31, 2008, Comments Off on Moscow to seize grain export controls

July 31, 2008 (FT) Russia plans to form a state grain trading company to control up to half of the country’s cereal ex ...

U.S. Presidential Campaign: Issues – Trade & Tariffs
July 31, 2008, Comments Off on U.S. Presidential Campaign: Issues – Trade & Tariffs

Taxing the Poor Edward Gresser (Foreign Affairs) … most imports arrive not under FTAs but through the permanent ta ...

Canada: Policy toward China
July 30, 2008, Comments Off on Canada: Policy toward China

July 30 Canada’s forestry industry is missing the boat on China Jason (Guangyu) Wang, Canadian International Counc ...

Union for the Mediterranean
July 28, 2008, Comments Off on Union for the Mediterranean

Two and a Half Cheers for the Mediterranean Union by Chris Patten (Project Syndicate) Maybe it is time to be a bit more ...

Sarkozy’s List of Successes
July 23, 2008, Comments Off on Sarkozy’s List of Successes

July 23 2008 (Truthdig) France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy is often dismissed for his flamboyance, but he has quite re ...

G8 July 7-9 2008
July 10, 2008, Comments Off on G8 July 7-9 2008

See also World Hunger , Zimbabwe (Xinhua) Backgrounder: Key facts about G8 summit A world of troubles to tackle (The Eco ...

Intellectual-Property Rights and Wrongs
July 2, 2008, 1 Comment

Last October, the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decided to consider what a dev ...

Zimbabwe
June 18, 2008, Comments Off on Zimbabwe

June 18 South Africa’s Mbeki meets with Mugabe, Tsvangirai : South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has been des ...

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