Category: Global Financial Crisis

Goodbye WTO! »

Hmmmm, a good idea don’t you think so?  Newsweek sez …… Representatives of 153 nations and regions will meet in Geneva this week to try and salvage one of the longest and most laborious trade negotiations in modern times. For almost a decade, the World Trade Organization has been trying to lower trade barriers for [...]

Day 2 Presentations of CSO Parallel Meeting to 30th FAO-APRC »

The following presentations given during the second day (Sept. 28) of the CSO Parallel Meeting to the 30th FAO-APRC held in Gyeongju, Korea are now available for download over at the event website http://csomtgfaoaprckorea.blogspot.com/ Plenary Session 4: The Global Food and Financial Crisis: Lessons and the Way Forward Grassroots Strategies to address the crisis: An [...]

World Bank sees “end of Third World” »

Interesting pronouncements from the World Bank. Makes you wonder though, what it REALLY means… IPS | By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Apr 14, 2010 (IPS) – The 2009 global financial crisis marked the definitive end of longstanding paradigms of the global economy and development, such as the “Third World” and “North-South”, according to World Bank President [...]

AsiaDHRRA to participate in ASEAN Workshop on Social Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis »

Ms. Marlene Ramirez, AsiaDHRRA Secretary General, has been invited by ASEAN to participate in the Regional Workshop on Social Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis to be held on 8-9 December 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.