It will take years to revive trade talks

It will take years to revive trade talks
Larry Elliott Economics editor
The Guardian
31 Jul 2006

The myths about the Doha Development Round are legion. One is glaringly obvious — that it has anything to do with development. The rich countries paid lip service to this idea in order to get the talks started back in 2001, then settled down to... read more...

U.S. knocks Beijing on Doha talks

U.S. knocks Beijing on Doha talks
By Greg Hitt
The Wall Street Journal Europe
28 Jul 2006

WASHINGTON—U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab added a new target to the lengthening list of those being blamed for contributing to the collapse of world-trade talks: China. The divisions that brought a halt to negotiations this week were far... read more...

Oil called major risk Think-tank outlines threat to global economy

Oil called major risk Think-tank outlines threat to global economy
BY ERIC BEAUCHESNE CANWEST NEWS SERVICE OTTAWA
Windsor Star
26 Jul 2006

The major risk to the global economy is that oil prices, and then in turn interest rates, will be driven higher by geopolitical uncertainties, according to an otherwise upbeat forecast Tuesday. The global economy will slow to 3.4 per cent this year... read more...

Activists: Hundreds Harassed At the G8

Activists: Hundreds Harassed At the G8
By Maria Danilova THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow Times
25 Jul 2006

More than 500 activists and protesters were harassed, intimidated or unlawfully detained by police before and during the Group of Eight summit that Russia hosted earlier this month, rights groups said Monday. At least 54 activists were arrested, seven... read more...

ONLY THE BOLD WILL THRIVE

ONLY THE BOLD WILL THRIVE
MARKETING REPORTER, TORONTO
Globe and Mail
24 Jul 2006

BY KEITH McARTHUR Brands are part of a nation’s personality. Without Coke and McDonald’s, the United States just isn’t America. Japan and Germany are both described as industrious and technically savvy, but one is quite Toyota, while the other is much... read more...

Paving the path to a global goal

Paving the path to a global goal

Calgary Herald
21 Jul 2006

During his international tour last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper described Canada as a “new energy superpower” and then went on to discuss his government’s intention to build Canada into a “global energy superpower.” Harper not only stressed our... read more...

Clever nation notion

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Clever nation notion
PAUL KELLY EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Australian
22 Jul 2006

THE 21st-century task facing Australia is how to leverage its assets to succeed in the globalised age, and this requires a flexible economy, a highly educated work force and a sound system of governance. John Howard’s best insight in his Committee for... read more...

Hot in pursuit

Hot in pursuit
By Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
The Washington Times Daily
14 Jul 2006

ALONDON. couple of decades ago there appeared a new blossom in the moribund garden of liberalism called neoliberalism. Naturally with that ever- hopeful prefix, “neo,” slapped onto it, the liberal faithful were aglow with anticipation of yet another... read more...

China, India crowd G7 in driver’s seat

China, India crowd G7 in driver’s seat
BY BARRIE McKENNA, WASHINGTON
Globe and Mail
19 Jul 2006

It used to be that the leaders of the Group of Seven could move the global economy almost at will. A higher U.S. dollar? No problem. Curb commodity consumption? Sure. No longer. The explosion of China and India is rapidly remaking the global economic... read more...

Everyone gives a little ground and trade talks get a final chance

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Everyone gives a little ground and trade talks get a final chance
Larry Elliott Economics editor
The Guardian
20 Jul 2006

Isolated It wasn’t quite the shoot out at the OK Corral, but for the G8 it was as close as you might have got to it. Round the table in St Petersburg, a game of diplomatic poker was being played for high stakes. Pascal Lamy, the director-general of... read more...

Putin snubbed at G8 over entry to world trade club (The Business, 16 Jul 2006, Page 1)

Putin snubbed at G8 over entry to world trade club
by Ben Aris and Ian Watson
The Business
16 Jul 2006

TALKS that would have led to a historic agreement recognising Russia’s return as a world economic power have stalled as world leaders met at the G8 summit in St Petersburg this weekend. After marathon talks that ended on Saturday, negotiators have set... read more...

City investors fear global downturn after oil price spike

City investors fear global downturn after oil price spike
Angela Balakrishnan
The Guardian
19 Jul 2006

Pessimism among global fund managers over the economic outlook has reached record highs despite some stability in the world markets over the past month, a Merrill Lynch survey showed yesterday. Out of the 213 global fund managers surveyed by the... read more...

Israel’s peace dividend is to be a player in the global economy

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Israel’s peace dividend is to be a player in the global economy
BERNARD AVISHAI
The Business
16 Jul 2006

DOES the Israeli economy really need peace? Some are taking this question seriously, at least since the former finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, argued that peace is a “useful, but not a necessary, condition” for Israel’s economic growth. In spite... read more...

Executive pay: The Sept. 11 factor in timing of stock options

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Executive pay: The Sept. 11 factor in timing of stock options
By Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Jul 2006

ON SEPT. 21, 2001, rescuers dug through the smoldering remains of the World Trade Center in New York. Across town, families buried two firefighters found a week earlier. At Fort Drum, on the edge of New York’s Adirondacks, soldiers readied for... read more...

WTO plan reshapes Vietnam

WTO plan reshapes Vietnam
By Alan Sipress
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Jul 2006

THE WASHINGTON POST HANOI—A pair of eager workers gaze skyward from a billboard at the main gate of the Hanoi Textile & Garment Co., arms raised in proletarian zeal, a tableau of industry unfolding behind them. Bold slogans across the bottom urge... read more...

Paulson Pledges America Won’t Retreat From Global Economy

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Paulson Pledges America Won’t Retreat From Global Economy
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER — Associated Press
New York Sun
11 Jul 2006

Henry Paulson took over yesterday the nation’s 74th Treasury secretary, pledging to make sure the country does not retreat from the global economy. Mr. Paulson, the former head of Goldman Sachs Group, was sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts in the... read more...

Religions have a role in the global economy

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Religions have a role in the global economy
Stephen Scharper
Toronto Star
08 Jul 2006

Acouple of years ago, a Toronto friend was visiting his in-laws in Milwaukee on the Fourth of July. That year, U.S. Independence Day happened to fall on a Sunday, and my friend noticed that the local-global coffee shop was open as usual in the early... read more...

Iceland’s economy cools, as poster boy feels heat

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Iceland’s economy cools, as poster boy feels heat
By Craig Karmin
The Wall Street Journal Europe
11 Jul 2006

RReykjavik, Iceland ECLINING ON A BLACK leather sofa at 101 Hotel in Reykjavik’s night-life district, Jn sgeir Jhannesson didn’t look the part of Iceland’s top corporate raider. As patrons sipped cocktails and mingled in a Jacuzzi, he brushed aside... read more...