Introduction: the MDG’s
Pascal Lamy stated in Delhi last month: “With the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the world saw an unprecedented collective effort to pursue a shared future….; moving the Doha Round to its successful conclusion remains a good test for our collective determination to a global partnership for development”
NEW YORK – The breakdown of the latest round of global trade talks has clearly weakened the multilateral trading system, a system originally designed to offer a fair trade system to all. The collapse of negotiations on July 29th in Geneva, is yet another lost opportunity for creating a more just and fair trading system long promised to poor countries.
The Spanish Alliance Against Poverty gathered representatives from three main political parties in Spain – PSOE, PP and IU- to discuss their electoral proposals to address international poverty and inequality, before the upcoming general elections on March 9. During the debate the political representatives and the pubic talked about cooperation, trade and immigration policies.
GENEVA – The world’s poorest countries, even those of sub-Saharan Africa, are ‘’approaching’’ the Millennium Development Goals, the new Trade and Development Index (TDI) indicates.
But after pointing out that possibility to IPS, Supachai Panitchpakdi, the secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, clarified that ‘’performance will have to be sustained and improved in certain areas if countries are to meet the 2015 MDGs,’’ which were adopted by the international community in 2000.
