Pascal Lamy

The Geneva Consensus

Making Trade Work for All

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides unique insights into how open trade interacts with other economic and social policies to tackle the challenges of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781107664159
• ISBN-10: 1107664152
• Artikelnr.: 39633510

Autorenporträt

Pascal Lamy was Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 2005 until 2013. Between 1999 and 2004, he was Commissioner for Trade at the European Commission under Romano Prodi. Dr Lamy holds degrees from the Paris-based École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) and from the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He began his career in the French civil service at the Inspection Générale des Finances and at the Treasury. He then became an advisor to the Finance Minister Jacques Delors, and subsequently to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Harnessing globalization amid the crisis facing multilateralism
2. The changing face of trade
3. Helping the poorest up the prosperity ladder
4. Trade: friend not foe of the environment
5. Trading towards global food security
6. Trade can contribute towards better health
7. Trade and labour: separated at birth but still connected
8. Trade and energy: the case for a greater WTO role
9. Trade and currencies: trading community seeks greater currency stability
10. Trade and competition: fairer competition makes for fairer trade
11. Trade and human rights: a case of misplaced suspicion
12. Last but not least: the Doha Round.