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20 December 2016
Bridges Africa met with Mathias Ismaïl, Chair of OSO Group S.A. and Chief Executive of R&O Seafood Gastronomy, in order to shed light on an ambitious project that has successfully turned sustainability standards into the driving force behind its business model thanks to a clear strategic vision...
13 April 2016
The Role of the G20 in Global Economic Governance Established in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, the G20 Summit has played an important role in global economic governance. Its development can be divided into two phases. The first phase includes the first three Summits: the...
10 December 2015
Within a matter of days, trade ministers will gather together in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi for the WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference, marking the first time that the global trade body’s highest-level meeting will be held in sub-Saharan Africa. The occasion will also allow for a...
20 November 2015
Negotiators have tabled a flurry of proposals on the text of the WTO’s ministerial declaration, ahead of the organisation’s ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi being held in less than five weeks’ time. With controversy over the fate of the trade body’s long-running Doha...
12 November 2015
Negotiators have tabled a flurry of proposals on the text of the WTO’s ministerial declaration, ahead of the organisation’s ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi being held in less than five weeks’ time. With controversy over the fate of the trade body’s long-running Doha...
11 November 2015
As we move to the WTO 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, WTO members are discussing the contours of a possible outcome around export competition in agriculture, a small LDC package, probably focusing on duty-free quota-free market access, rules of origin, cotton, the services waiver and some...
24 September 2015
With WTO members still divided on farm subsidies and market access issues, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo last week called for negotiators to start focusing their efforts on “the most promising issues” for the global trade body’s upcoming ministerial conference in Nairobi, Kenya this December...
9 September 2015
WTO members confirmed on Tuesday the formal appointment of Vangelis Vitalis, New Zealand’s ambassador to the global trade body, as the new chair of the organisation’s agriculture negotiations. In remarks at the meeting, the new chair told trade officials that he would work “honestly, fairly,...
10 August 2015
The 31 July deadline for inking a Doha Round “work programme” will very likely be missed, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said on Tuesday, urging delegations to come prepared this autumn to redouble their efforts toward reaching “substantive outcomes” ahead of their December ministerial...
30 July 2015
The 31 July deadline for inking a Doha Round “work programme” will very likely be missed, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said on Tuesday, urging delegations to come prepared this autumn to redouble their efforts toward reaching “substantive outcomes” ahead of their December ministerial...
20 July 2015
Ahead of the Tenth Ministerial Conference to be held in December later this year in Nairobi, Kenya, WTO members met on July 9 2015 to discuss a potential outcome on cotton. An update on the market situation and latest policy measures in cotton trade were also presented. At present, cotton...
16 July 2015
The prospects for reaching a Doha Round “work programme” by the end of this month are growing increasingly dim, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told members last week. “Considering everything I have heard from members over the last three weeks, I see very little prospect of delivering a...
16 July 2015
The prospects for reaching a Doha Round “work programme” by the end of this month are growing increasingly dim, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told members last week. “Considering everything I have heard from members over the last three weeks, I see very little prospect of delivering a...
26 June 2015
Guatemala, on behalf of the small, vulnerable economies (SVEs) group, submitted on 17 June their contribution for inclusion into the post-Bali Work Programme. Recalling their particular economic conditions, the submission stresses that the development dimension should be at the centre of the...
4 June 2015
Talks aimed at crafting a work programme for resolving the outstanding areas of the WTO’s Doha Round are still not reaching the “necessary convergence” in order to meet an end-July deadline, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo warned the global trade body’s members this week. “We are still seeing good...
4 June 2015
Talks aimed at crafting a work programme for resolving the outstanding areas of the WTO’s Doha Round are still not reaching the “necessary convergence” in order to meet an end-July deadline, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo warned the global trade body’s members this week. “We are still seeing good...
8 May 2015
The ongoing efforts to craft a Doha Round work programme have seen “positive engagement” in recent weeks, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said on Tuesday. However, the global trade chief warned that members need to “redouble” their efforts and start tackling certain “gateway issues” if they...
7 May 2015
The ongoing efforts to craft a Doha Round work programme have seen “positive engagement” in recent weeks, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said on Tuesday. However, the global trade chief warned that members need to “redouble” their efforts and start tackling certain “gateway issues” if they...
8 April 2015
Abstract: The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of countries has tabled a series of elements that it says should define a potential WTO work programme on the Doha Round talks, according to a communication circulated by Barbados on the Group’s behalf in March. Various elements for defining...
7 April 2015
Divers éléments visant à définir un programme de travail post-Bali sur les négociations restantes de l’Agenda de développement de Doha ont été énoncés dans une communication mise en circulation par la Barbade, le 10 mars, au nom du groupe des pays d’Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP). Les...