Podcast
Global Summits: Where are we going? – Episode – 9: Post WTO 10th Ministerial Conference reactive
Development writer and international negotiations watcher, Biraj Swain discusses the WTO 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi with farmer and Farmers’ Forum editor Ajay Vir Jhakar, trade analyst and journalist Devinder Sharma, Third World Network’s Ranja Sengupta and CUTS International’s Executive Director Bipul Chatterjee. They discuss the wins and losses at the WTO Summit, the fate of Indian agriculture and India public stock-holding for food security, the hard game that US and EU played and why did India give in. They wrap up with some crystal ball gazing if the market access obsession has killed multilateralism and international solidarity forever and the road ahead for Doha Development Agenda.
For reference:
- WTO members secure historic Nairobi Package for Africa and the world
- What next for poor countries fighting to trade in an unfair world?
- WTO Spat: The price US paid to its wheat farmers in 1986-88 is almost the same as India is paying its farmers almost 30 years later in 2015-2016
- Nairobi WTO: Why Nirmala Sitharaman’s defensive statement is a clear let-down for Indai?
- India’s time to lead at the WTO
- Doha is dead: Hopes for a fairer global trade shouldn’t die too
- Trading blows, war continues: How India fares at WTO yet to be decided
- Nothing at Nairobi: WTO deal leaves India and developing countries in the lurch
- US’ cynical positions designed to produce deadlock
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