Africa Left to Starve After a Year of Blair's Broken Promises World Trade Talks

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THIS week, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meets in Hong Kong. The WTO is the major multinational agency which oversees the rules of international trade and, as such, the benefits of globalisation, and its downsides, tend to flow from the business decisions of these gatherings. Coming at the end of Britain's so called "era-changing" year as both head of the G8 and the six months of the European Union presidency, what can we expect?

Initial fears are that some of the agreements, signed by world leaders at Gleneagles back in the summer, will simply evaporate into the bureaucratic convenience of very long grass.

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Africa Left to Starve After a Year of Blair's Broken Promises World Trade Talks

At the G8, a new fund was agreed to help drive meaningful and lasting change, especially among the poorer African countries. Now, inst...

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