Focus on Trade Index

 

1999

Issues Number 32 to 42

Number 32, January 1999


Brazil’s wooing of speculative capital misguided: An interview with Cristovam Buarque
Walden Bello

The alternatives, but is anyone listening?
Chanida Chanyapate

Humility and hubris: the Bretton Woods twins fail to disarm the critics
Kamal Malhotra

What sank Asia? Bad journalism and sloppy analysis by investors, brokers and academics were among the causes
Walden Bello


Number 33, January 1999


Governments begin to stake out positions as new negotiations on agriculture approach
Walden Bello

Food security through liberalised trade or the nurturing of domestic production?
Aileen Kwa

Towards food security: A position paper for developing countries in the review of the WTO agreement on agriculture
Aileen Kwa

Summaries of the analysis and information exchange (AIE) papers submitted to the WTO committee on agriculture
Aileen Kwa

WTO and developing countries: Foreign Policy in Focus brief
Aileen Kwa


Number 34, April 1999


IMF chief must resign conference demands

Architectural blueprints, development models, and political strategies
Walden Bello

A meeting of minds: interview with Hazel Henderson and Walden Bello
Sanitsuda Ekachai and Atiya Achakulwisut

Japanese officials try to woo civil society reps
Tomoko Sakuma

The WTO and developing countries: Will Vietnam benefit from being a WTO member?
Aileen Kwa


Number 35, June1999


The politics of food aid in Indonesia
Southeast Asia Fair Trade and Food Security Council

Exporting American values, Summers-style
Chang Noi

Will the WTO ever be the same?
Nicola Bullard


Number 36, July 1999


G7 tightens its grip on global economy
Nicola Bullard

IMF and Ecuadorian government provoke violent reaction to hunger and poverty
Accion Ecologica

Asia, Asian farmers, and the WTO
Walden Bello

Will food security get trampled as the elephants fight over agriculture?
Aileen Kwa

Structural adjustment review a lesson in "constructive engagement"
Kamal Malhotra


Number 37, August 1999


A new trade round: to have or have not?
Aileen Kwa

Power, timidity, and irresponsibility in global finance
Walden Bello

Thai groups questions World Bank legitimacy
Supara Janchitfah

Deconstructing Larry: what the new man at treasury has in store for Asia
Walden Bello


Number 38, September 1999


A new paradigm for rights based advocacy and strengthening NGO alliances in the post-Suharto era
Emmy Hafild

Capital flows and global instability: how the neo-liberals helped fuel the fire in East Timor
Nicola Bullard

Statement on East Timor signed by 1,000

From APEC to ashes
Marissa de Guzman & Walden Bello


Number 39, October 1999


Trick or treat: the new sugarcoated IMF
Nicola Bullard

Jubilee as social-movement model
Patrick Bond

The Teagu declaration & letter to the IMF managing director and executive board

China at 50: A view from the South
Walden Bello


Number 40, November 1999


NGO's take on WTO in the "Battle of Seattle"
Walden Bello

Searching for scapegoats: who’ll be blamed if Seattle talks fail?
Nicola Bullard

WTO and developing countries: Special updated edition of the Foreign Policy in Focus Brief on the WTO
Aileen Kwa


Number 41, December 1999


Confusion and chaos in the countdown to Seattle
Aileen Kwa

The iron cage: the WTO, the Bretton Woods institutions, and the South
Walden Bello


Number 42, December 1999


A blow-by-blow account of Friday, 3 December
Walden Bello

From crisis to victory for developing countries
Aileen Kwa

What next for Asia and the WTO?
Walden Bello

The three horsemen of the apocalypse
Monte Kesleman