Liberty
to Trade
Battle
Over Trade in Seattle
Following
are some of the news and articles about the World Trade Organisation
(WTO) meeting in Seattle, November 30 to December 3, 1999, and
the protestors that it attracted on the streets.
In
Seattle
Free
trade is fair trade, says an international coalition of
organisations and think tanks, International
Consumers for Civil Society (ICCS).
Trade
and Its Critics. In Seattle, NGOs exposed how
they perpetuate third world poverty, writes Barun S. Mitra
in The Telegraph, Calcutta, 21 December 1999.
Did
India Gain from Seattle? in the Perspective section
of The Economic Times on 14 December 1999, Barun
Mitra is one of the three contributors. Mitra argues that
India would be better off if she takes a sovereign decision
to universally and unilaterally eliminate all the self-imposed
barriers to trade.
WTO
Protestors Punish the Poor in Seattle, Barun S. Mitra
in The Asian Wall Street Journal on 9 December
1999, points out the misconceived nature of the protests in
Seattle during the WTO ministerial meeting. He points out
that the talks failed primarily because of the attempts by
the US and some other countries to push through uniform environmental
and labour standards on developing countries which could hardly
afford such neutralisation of competitive advantages. Ironically,
the failure to liberalise trade further may retard economic
growth in the poorer economies. Consequently the environment
may be even more endangered and the children and the poor
further impoverished.
International
Assemblies and the Role of Free Market NGO’s,
in Atlas Highlights, J. Bishop Grewell,
a columnist for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and a Research
Associate with PERC (the
Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana, writes
about the ways to expose the fallacies perpetrated by the
protestors on the streets of Seattle.
The Highlights is the newsletter of Atlas Economic Research
Foundation, USA. Atlas
Foundation is dedicated to promoting free market oriented
organisations around the world
World
Trade Organization: Take Two, J. Bishop Grewell
looks closely at some of the issues raised by the protestors
in Seattle in Bozeman Daily Chronicle, on 22
December 1999.
Comments
and suggestions are welcome. Please help us identify other
significant articles dealing with various aspects of international
trade, and the implications of the protests in Seattle. Please
write to Liberty
Institute
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