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The governments and corporations of the major industrialised countries are bringing intense pressures to bear on all the member states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to open up their service sectors to their international companies in a vast array of infrastructural and even social services. This opening up is being negotiated within the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GAT... Read more

This paper is based on a presentation made at a workshop on 'Trade and Environmental Linkages' by the Institute for Global Dialogue, in Midrand 1-2 September 2005. In a workshop dedicated to debating the policy and practical/operational relationships - and tensions - between international trade agreements and multilateral environmental agreements, and their implications in relation to "nati... Read more

Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Economic Order Edited by John Cavanagh, Marcos Arruda and Daphne WyshamTransnational InstitutePluto Press, London, 1994... Read more

This Excerpt is taken from a longer report "Further Industrial Tariff Liberalisation Through the WTO: Tactical and Strategic Challenges facing South Africa and the rest of Africa in the 'Non-Agricultural Market Access' (NAMA) Negotiations in the WTO" and is available in hard copy from Alternative information and Development Centre (AIDC), Cape Town. The WTO is one of the most important intern... Read more

The Etats généraux - Estates General - of local governments against the GATS [General Agreement on Trade in Services, one of the many trade agreement managed by the World Trade Organisation-WTO] took place on 13-14 November 2004. This meeting, whose title harks back to the first step in what was to become the French Revolution, represented a genuine first for the alter... Read more

Depuis de longs mois c'était la le mot d'ordre des ONG "alter-mondialistes" présentes a Cancún. Des l'annonce officielle de l'échec, faite par le ministre mexicain des affaires étrangers Derbez, nous avons laisser exploser notre joie en chantant a tue-tête une version détournée de la célèbre chanson des Beatles, "Money can't buy the world". Hélas, malgré cette victoire, l'argent risque encore... Read more

French original Dat was sinds vele maanden het ordewoord van de in Cancún verzamelde "andersglobalistische" ngo's. Na de officiële aankondiging, door de Mexicaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Derbez, van de mislukking, hebben wij onze vreugde luidkeels uitgezongen: "Money can't buy the world", op de melodie van een bekende Beatlessong. Helaas, niettegenstaande deze overwinning,... Read more