Focus on Trade Index

 

2000

Issues Number 32 to 42

Number 43, January 2000


Why reform of the WTO is the wrong agenda
Walden Bello


Number 44, January 2000


UNCTAD: Time to lead, time to challenge the WTO
Walden Bello


Number 45, February 2000


Walden Bello in Davos

Global conspiracy or capitalist circus?


An All-American Show?


Has Asia Really Rebounded?


Number 46, March 2000


UNCTAD X: Pies, preachers and poets
Nicola Bullard

UNCTAD X: An opportunity Lost?
Walden Bello

Market access for LDCs: public relations disguised as development
Aileen Kwa

UNCTAD security "half-baked"
Harrison George

Mr Moore: Shallow and defensive at UNCTAD X
Aileen Kwa

Who speaks for whom?
Shalmali Guttal

UNCTAD and civil society: Towards our common goals
Statement from the NGO Plenary Caucus, 7 and 8 February 2000


Number 47, March 2000


It's time for 'uncivil' society to act
Nicola Bullard

Euro-American rivalry poses challenge to Asia and developing world
Walden Bello


Number 48, April 2000


Meltzer report on Bretton Woods twins builds case for abolition but hesitates
Walden Bello

Letter to the editor
Mike Waghorne

Time for the ICFTU to move from anti-social (inter) national partnerships to a real global social partnership?
Peter Waterman

No time for reform
Patrick Bond

Can workers beat globalisation?
David Bacon

Washington and the demise of the “third wave” of democratisation
Walden Bello


Number 49, April 2000


Washington protests demoralize IMF and World Bank
Walden Bello

Paradigms lost
Nicola Bullard

ADB 2000: Senior officials and internal documents paint institution in confusion
Walden Bello

Payoff scandal hits ADB-backed power privatization in the Philippines
Walden Bello

Struggle for a basic right to a livelihood
Sanitsuda Ekachai

Will WTO chief be sacrificial lamb?
Nicola Bullard


Number 50, May 2000


Reflections in the streets
Ranee Hassarungsee

The AGM 2000: More losses than victories
Chris Adams

Regional currency swap arrangement: a step towards Asian monetary fund?
Walden Bello

Time for ADB to own up to its responsibility
Jenina Joy Chavez-Malaluan

The many uses of poverty
Shalmali Guttal

Australia and the Asian Development Bank in the Mekong region
Charlie Pahlman

Dangerous liaisons: progressives, the right, and the anti-China trade campaign
Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal


Number 51, June 2000


Another one bites the dust: collateral damage in the battle for the Bank
Nicola Bullard

Asian monetary fund revival?
Kristen Nordhaug

The sledgehammer and the nut
Harrison George

China: the country everyone loves to hate
Nicola Bullard

“Blowback”: A review essay on an academic defector’s guide to America’s Asia policy
Walden Bello

A response from Bill Jordan to the Peter Waterman


Number 52, August 2000


"Son of a commoner" faces the Assembly of the Poor
Wipaphan Korkeatkachorn

United Nations shows its true colours
Nicola Bullard

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations: A preliminary autopsy
Walden Bello

Venezuelan elections offer hope of real reform
Mark Weisbrot

Civil society as global actor: Promise and pitfalls
Walden Bello

Paving the way to a new world: Let us globalise the struggle!
Final resolution from the Geneva 2000 Alternative Summit


Number 53, September 2000


Fallout from Davos "down-under"
Nicola Bullard

From Melbourne to Prague: the struggle for a deglobalised world
Walden Bello

The armadillo and the chameleon: A cautionary tale
Nicola Bullard


Number 54, September 2000


The IMF’s Asian legacy
Jacques-chai Chomthongdi

The end of imagination: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and poverty reduction
Shalmali Guttal

All in the family: musical chairs in the neo-liberal establishment
Chris Adams


Number 55, October 2000


With friends like this, who needs enemies
Nicola Bullard

A World Bank staffer’s odyssey in Kafka’s Prague
An Insider

The Prague castle debate: A few questions for Mr Wolfensohn and Mr Kohler
Walden Bello

Tough crowd for IMF, World Bank leaders in Prague
Steven Pearlstein


Number 56, November 2000


Pak Mun dam update: Power company "guardians" burn protest village

Micro credit equals micro debt
Chanida Chanyapate Bamford

Fallacies of the renegotiation of the Ecuadorian external debt
Alberto Accost

The turbulent and dismal record of World Bank structural adjustment lending in the Philippines
Maria Teresa Diokno-Pascual

Balancing the power of money
Menno Salverda


Number 57, December 2000


The success of being dangerous: Resisting free trade and investment regimes
Gerard Greenfield

The WTO: Boon or bane for the developing world?
A debate between Walden Bello, executive director of Focus on the Global South and professor at the University of the Philippines and Philippe Legrain, special adviser to WTO director general Mike Moore and former trade and economics correspondent at the Economist.

Malaysian NGOs call on government to reject launching of new WTO round

The year at the WTO: Analysis and key issues for 2001
Aileen Kwa


Transparency and institutional issues a year after Seattle
The 'a la carte' undertaking: a new approach to special and differential treatment?
The Agreement on Agriculture: change requires a hero's journey