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Liberalisation Of Trade in Services
- Erik Wesselius
18 October 2001
Paper
The United Kingdom is home to a particularly influential services industry lobby, which operates through an organisation called International Financial Services, London (IFSL). Two IFSL working groups, the Liberalisation of Trade in Services (LOTIS) Committee and the High-Level LOTIS Group, constitute a veritable corporate-state alliance.
Development Redefined
John Cavanagh, Robin Broad
25 September 2008
Article
Today, just as faith in deregulated markets has evaporated in the nightmare on Wall Street, so too is the long reign of market fundamentalism (or neoliberalism) ending in the development arena. And, a debate over the best route to development has returned.
New international financial institutions for a new global financial architecture
Marcos Arruda
29 January 2009
Article
An international financial architecture will be new if it is aimed at strengthening their members’ capacity to plan and manage sustainably their own endogenous, democratic and sustainable socioeconomic and human development.
Debating Europe: The Global Economic Crisis and EU Responses – Beyond the G20 (Video)
Walden Bello, Gert Jan Koopman
20 March 2009
Article
Video of the debate on the G20 between Walden Bello and the EU commission oficial Gert Jan Koopman.
Confronting global trade as a root cause of the financial crisis!
Our World Is Not For Sale
23 June 2009
Article
Some Key Points for Member Groups of the Our World Is Not For Sale Network [OWINFS] at the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, June 22-24, 2009.
UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis
24 June 2009
Article
Spearheaded by the current President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D´Escoto Brockmann, the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development took place from June 24-26, 2009.
Ignoring the crises? How further GATS liberalisation impacts the financial and food crises
Myriam vander Stichele
18 June 2008
Article
As the world is still assessing one of the most violent shocks in international financial markets ever, and measures to avoid future financial crises are still not in place, developing countries should be cautious of dangers associated with further liberalisation of their financial sectors.
End WTO deregulation of finance
Myriam vander Stichele
01 February 2009
Article
Since the current financial crisis started, none of the governments, experts or media who have called for new regulations for the financial industry have taken into account rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which actually impose extreme financial service deregulation on many WTO member countries.
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Debating Europe: The Global Crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy (video)
Myriam vander Stichele, Susan George
20 February 2009
Article
Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts. Susan George and Myriam Vander Stichele debate MEP Ignasi Guardans and Chief Economist DG Trade, Gaspar Frontini, in TNI's Debating Europe series.