[OPE-L] Nov 3: The WTO Meeting In Hong Kong: What's at Stake for the Poor?

[Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@xxxxxxx>]

 

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The WTO Meeting in Hong Kong: What's at Stake for the Poor?

A discussion with Kevin P. Gallagher
Author of "Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO"

Thursday, November 3, 4:30-:30 pm
Institute for Policy Studies, 733 15th St. NW #1020 (15th and H), Washington, DC

Less than six weeks before the World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong, Kevin Gallagher, Boston University professor and senior researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, will critique new estimates of the economic benefits of the global trade negotiations.

Did you know:

-The benefits have been revised downwards by 80 percent and amount to less than one-tenth of one percent of developing country GDP?

-70 percent of all benefits are expected to go to developed countries?

Based on his new book, "Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO" (Zed Books, October 2005), Gallagher will show that even these small and skewed benefits would come at considerable cost: the WTO is shrinking the ability of nations to put proper polices in place for sustainable development.

For more information on the new book see: http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/other_books/PuttingDevelopmentFirst.htm

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