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Aug. 23--BEIRUT -- After three years of back-to-back crises, assassinations and war, this divided country has a window of stability, and Lebanese are jumping at the chance to party again. Tourists are flooding back in, summer festivals have revved up and ... Source: www.nationmultimedia.com --- 31 days ago
Will they or won't they? Will the world's trade ministers eventually sign a new multilateral trade.... ... Source: www.thememriblog.org --- 3 days ago
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BEIRUT: After three years of back-to-back crises, assassinations and war, this divided country has a window of stability, and Lebanese are jumping at the chance to party again. ... Source: www.thememriblog.org --- 29 days ago
On dozing figure: "Lebanon"; on post: "Doha Agreement"; on woodpecker: "Future conflicts." Cartoonist: 'Aamer Al-Zo'abi Source: Akhbar Al-Arab, UAE, August 7, ... August 8, 2008, 1:17 pm ... Source: www.nowlebanon.com --- 31 days ago
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Lamy, who arrived in New Delhi within a fortnight of collapse of ministers' meeting in Geneva, is understood to have sought prime minister's views on whether India wants to 'keep working or take time out'. Negotiations for a global Agreement on tariff cuts and reducing agricultural subsidies have dragged for seven years since the launch of the Doha Round in 2001. ... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 19 days ago
THE COLLAPSE of the Doha Round of global tariff-reduction negotiations means that free trade is likely to advance, if at all, only through bilateral and regional agreements. These are not ideal, since they risk fragmenting the world into rival trading blocs, but they are better than no liberalization at all. And the economic case for the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement in particular, in which both Washington and Seoul agreed to reduce tariffs on a host of products, remains strong. The biggest such proposed pact since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, the deal would substantially increase American producers' access to South Korea's dynamic, $1.2 trillion economy. ... Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk --- 36 days ago
The Doha Round didn't die this week in Geneva. It died five years ago in Cancun, when certain ministers determined that the negotiations would be more valuable as a stage to dazzle domestic audiences than as a means to an Agreement. This week finally provided that clarity. Although a successful Doha conclusion would have been welcome - if for nothing more than reaffirming nations' commitments to the rules-based system and justifying seven years of time and expense - the R... ... Omid Memarian: My Interview With Deborah Campbell: How Hezbollah's Triumph is Blowback for US policy
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India's Jet Airways, which is starting flights from Dubai to New Delhi and Mumbai on 23rd August will have a code-sharing Agreement with Emirates as the two carriers seek to benefit from the growing traffic on the UAE-India sector. Jet Airways' Dubai flights will complement the airline's daily services to Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat and Doha from various gateway points in India. ... Source: business-times.asiaone.com --- 39 days ago
(GENEVA) Disputes over farm policies of emerging Asian countries and European rules on banana imports emerged on Sunday as obstacles to a possible global trade deal after a full week of talks. ... Source: www.einnews.com --- 40 days ago
... French president, amid concern that he would join forces with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, in an attempt to block a deal. Brown discussed a possible timetable for getting ... ... Source: www.einnews.com --- 40 days ago
... French president, amid concern that he would join forces with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, in an attempt to block a deal. Brown discussed a possible timetable for getting ... ... Source: www.oecd.org --- 4 days ago
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has called on the participants in negotiations for a new multilateral trade Agreement to “go the last mile” and bring the World Trade Organization’s Doha round to a successful conclusion. ... Source: www.portfolio.com --- 31 days ago
O n a recent June afternoon at Jean Georges restaurant in New York , it didn't seem to matter that the namesake chef was off dealing with legal issues rather than in the kitchen. The food and service were up to par, and lunchtime diners cooed over signature dishes like delicately scrambled eggs dusted with caviar and a roving cart of pastel-colored homemade marshmallows. It will likely become more difficult for Jean-Georges Vongerichten to finesse the disappearing act. Last year the Michelin-starred chef, who has seven eateries in New York alone, inked a deal with Starwood Hotels to expand his restaurant empire to gargantuan proportions. High-profile chefs have been partnering up with luxury hotels like mad—Gordon Ramsay has locations at the London hotels in New York and West Hollywood; Masaharu Morimoto will open a sushi bar at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida this fall; Alfred Portale is establishing a Gotham Steak at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach—but Vongerichten plans to trump them all. The Agreement, brokered by $2 billion private-equity firm Catterton Partners, calls for between 30 and 50 Jean-Georges-branded hotel restaurants within five years. Already, branches of Vongerichten's Spice Market have opened at W hotels in Atlanta , Istanbul, and Doha, Qatar. There will be a total of 10 locations at Starwood brands, including the St. Regis and Westin, by the end of the year. "I like the business part," says Vongerichten, who h ... Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 36 days ago
Filed under: International markets , Other issues , Politics , Agriculture Just call it 'two steps forward, one step back' for the global trade talks. The collapse of the World Trade Organization's trade talks this week without an Agreement is a setback, economists contacted by BloggingStocks agreed, but it is not likely likely to prevent international trade from growing in 2009. The nine-day talks in Geneva -- aimed at completing the Doha Round -- collapsed Tuesday after the United States and the European Union could not reach an Agreement with China and India on what constituted acceptable tariffs for food imports, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The U.S. and E.U. say China and India wanted to impose prohibitively high tariffs. China and India counter that they were insisting on safeguard rules to protect their food supplies. Economist Glen Langan told BloggingStocks the elimination of food import tariffs would have resulted in more-efficient deployment of resources, and, ultimately, lower food prices for consumer around the world, along with increased the increased commerce that trade brings. "The failure of the talks is a real loss for consumers in China, India and in the U.S. and Europe," Langan said. "It will also really hurt low cost food producers in Brazil, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Ultimately, China and India will have to relent, or the west may begin to complain about free trade conditio ... Find more results for Doha Agreement on RSSMicro.com |
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Why after the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago , and particularly after the Doha accord in May, which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese government and essentially gave it the veto power it demanded, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been the most popular figure anywhere in the Arab world? After returning from months in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, Deborah Campbell the author of This Heated Place , a narrative exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, in an interview with me spoke about the meteoric rise of Hezbollah in the aftermath of the 2006 war, the Doha Agreement and the prisoner exchange with Israel. Campbell has written for The Economist, New Scientist, Ms. magazine, the Guardian and Asia Times, and recently reported for Harper's on the two months she spent "embedded" with Iraqi refugees. Over the past seven years, she has extensively chronicled the fault lines in the Middle East from Iran to Palestine, immersing herself for extended periods in the societies she writes about. Omid Memarian: How did the 2006 war with Israel affect Lebanese society? Deborah Campbell: Obviously it was devastating , both in terms of the economy and the psychology of the society. That summer, Lebanon finally appeared to be recovering from the years of civil war and was anticipating a banner year for tourism. Instead, the country endured billions of dollars in infra ...