Pascal Lamy: The WTO is your partner in achieving your development goals
WTO News, 31 March, 2012
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the WTO Seminar on Exchange Rates and Trade on 27 March 2012, said that “the international community needs to make headway on the issue of reform of the international monetary system. Unilateral attempts to change or retain the status quo will not work.
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Pascal Lamy: We need an international monetary system which facilitates international trade
WTO News, 27 March, 2012
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the WTO Seminar on Exchange Rates and Trade on 27 March 2012, said that “the international community needs to make headway on the issue of reform of the international monetary system. Unilateral attempts to change or retain the status quo will not work.
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Bridging urban-rural divide key to beat poverty: APJ Kalam
Times of India, 27 March, 2012
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University on 8 March 2012, said: “In the absence of a truly global government, global governance results from the action of sovereign States. It is inter-national. Between nations. In other words, global governance is the globalization of local governance.”
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BRICS Lays Solid Foundation for Global Economic Recovery
CRI, 26 March, 2012
New Delhi is at present in the limelight for the upcoming fourth BRICS Summit, where leaders of major emerging economies will gather to discuss topics like global governance, sustainable development and cooperation.
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World Bank chief in India, focus on poverty alleviation
Business Standard, 26 March, 2012
World Bank Group President begins an official visit to India to see what more it can do to support government efforts to overcome poverty, as India embarks on its 12th five-year Plan and global recovery remains fragile.
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Pascal Lamy: Global governance is the globalization of local governance
WTO News, 08 March, 2012
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University on 8 March 2012, said: “In the absence of a truly global government, global governance results from the action of sovereign States. It is inter-national. Between nations. In other words, global governance is the globalization of local governance.”
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The Contradictions in Global Poverty Numbers
Brookings, 06 March, 2012
The World Bank has just issued its latest estimates of global poverty. But one should not take the Bank’s final figures at face value; there are too many discrepancies with common sense.
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Global poverty in decline, says World Bank report
Global post, 06 March, 2012
A new report by the World Bank released Tuesday says that global poverty is in decline despite a world economic slump. The report indicates that those living on less than $1.25 per day declined for the first time in every developing region, despite economists’ predictions that that the global downturn impacted the very poor disproportionately.”
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MDG drinking water target being met is cause for celebration
The Guardian, 06 March, 2012
Since 1990 over 2 billion more people in the world have received access to drinking water. And this progress has not been driven by just big middle-income countries – smaller, less well-endowed countries have also shown the way.
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Brazil overtakes UK’s economy
BBC, 06 March, 2012
Brazil has become the sixth-biggest economy in the world, the country’s finance minister has said. The Latin American nation’s economy grew 2.7% last year, official figures show, more than the UK’s 0.8% growth.
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