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/ 25 January 2006
Ministers from more than 25 of the world’s major trading powers will start trying again on Wednesday to break a deadlock in global trade talks. Major players at the 149-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) appear as far apart as ever on the vexing subject of farm trade, as well as market access for industrial goods.
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/ 28 January 2005
The world’s richest countries need to make a ”quantum leap forward” in helping Africa in 2005, Tony Blair said as he announced that Britain would spend £45-million on mosquito nets to prevent malaria. The prime minister said he was expecting to see a fundamental shift on aid, debt relief and trade in the next 12 months.
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/ 26 January 2005
Troubled by the limp dollar and facing calls to do more to curb poverty and climate change, more than 2 000 political and business leaders have convened on Wednesday in the Swiss resort of Davos to talk, network and ponder the world’s pressing problems at the World Economic Forum, a corporate schmoozer’s dream nestled in the Swiss Alps.
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/ 23 January 2004
The United States economy will keep growing and is just starting to add significant new jobs, Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His upbeat forecast got a swift rebuttal from top American trade union leader John Sweeney.
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/ 21 January 2004
Chief executive officers around the world are less worried about terrorism than about a range of other risks to their business prospects like tougher competition and currency fluctuations, according to a survey released in Davos.
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/ 27 January 2003
Pretoria is not convinced European Union sanctions against Zimbabwe will produce the desired effect, South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
An accord on the controversial issue of access to life-saving cheap medicines at the World Trade Organisation is ”fairly close”, the chief executive of US drug company Pfizer, Henry McKinnell, said on Monday.