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Agriculture ministers meeting in Brussels this week are facing charges of hypocrisy over their attempts to reform Europe’s subsidised cotton sector, after four African countries…
Two of Africa’s poorest countries are to receive extra debt relief from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a move Britain hopes will pave the way for a more…
The United States’s determination to write off Saddam Hussein’s -billion debt has opened the door to a more generous deal for the most impoverished countries in Africa, the head…
Major oil companies are still making secret payments to repressive regimes, one year after British Prime Minister Tony Blair put his personal authority behind a British-led…
World leaders must address the ”ethical vacuum” at the heart of globalisation or face the danger that the widening gap between rich and poor will lead to further conflict,…
Britain’s sugar industry is conducting a last-ditch lobbying campaign to prevent Brussels from removing its lucrative virtual monopoly in the high-priced European market in…
Europe is the world’s largest exporter of white sugar, even though it costs twice as much for European producers to grow the stuff as farmers in poor countries. The high prices…
Human rights groups and green campaigners believe that companies’ glossy publications extolling their environmental and social record are unsatisfactory, with fewer than half of…
The United States’s labour market has roared back to life, creating twice as many jobs as expected last month, government figures showed last week, prompting speculation that the…
The European Commission was secretly preparing to sabotage plans to help poor countries trade their way out of poverty, as backstairs wrangling dominated the opening day of the…
An eleventh-hour deal to provide cut-price drugs for the world’s poorest people was being finalised in Geneva last week in an effort to save next month’s trade summit in Cancun,…
United States Treasury Secretary John Snow shrugged off concerns about the US’s deficit last week, insisting that a recovery in the world’s largest economy would help close the…
India and China will challenge the West’s control over global trade rules with a united front at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Cancun this September.
Western countries should kickstart deadlocked global trade talks to heal the international diplomatic rifts left by the war in Iraq, Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director of the…
Washington’s determination to find an alternative energy source to the Middle East is leading to a new oil rush in sub-Saharan Africa that threatens to launch a fresh cycle of…
The European Central Bank (ECB) was under mounting pressure to cut borrowing costs this week after admitting that the eurozone will grow this year at half the speed it originally…
United States President George Bush launched a legal challenge at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this week to force Europe to accept imports of US genetically modified (GM)…
Ethiopia’s prime minister has called on the West to reform damaging trade policies and increase development aid to help his country break its 20-year-long cycle of poverty and…
The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Supachai Panitchpakdi, warned Western nations this week that their failure to agree to a deal on cheap drugs for developing…
As the Burundian peace summit entered its third day in Tanzania this week, one of the warring rebel factions claimed to have captured 72 government troops in two months of…
