Nickname: Ken Jarboe

Review: I agree completely that the Doha Round was an unrealistic forum for what they were trying to achieve. As I have said before (most recently on my blog - www.intangibleeconomy.org), we may have seen the last of the multi-issue, multilateral trade negotiation "rounds".

Date reviewed: Aug 2, 2006 6:31 PM

Nickname: iwep

Review: The July 24 failure is exagerated by politicians. It failed because the proposal is too ambitious. I think the question is how ambitious an agreement do we need? Anyway, a little step does means a step. However, the Doha round has a long way to go; it's far longer than the politicians expected.

Date reviewed: Jul 27, 2006 12:24 AM

Nickname: econguy

Review: European countries have not changed much since the days of WW II, still cutting deals and making money off the dictators and terror groups and sponsors. They make money off the victims (Israel and African states) while undermining the protectors (U.S.). The latest news of Swedish knowledge of the oil-for-food scandal is the latest evidence of that. Neutrality was very profitable in the terror days of Hitler, and it is still that way today.

Date reviewed: Jul 26, 2006 8:43 PM

Nickname: Rohan

Review: That's one side of the story. Here's the other: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1808430.cms

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 7:14 PM

Nickname: ajithsrn

Review: Credentials of US: The largest exporter of arms to the world. The largest pollutor in the world The largest contributor to global warming. And the most inflexible when it comes to trade talks.

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 2:38 PM

Nickname: Karibu

Review: It's time for Africans to stop counting on international trade agreements to bail them out of economic stagnation and deterioration. Africa needs dedicated leaders who care about their people and believe in education and creativity at the local level. The African continent has virtually everything it needs to move forward economically. Poor and unimaginative leadership continues to be main problem on that continent. More dedication to self-reliance, accountability, generation of capital at the local level and zero tolerance for corrruption is what's needed in Africa and the developing world. No one should count on Amercan farmers to give up the subsidies. The trade talks are for most part a waste of time and money.

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 2:02 PM

Nickname: DHP

Review: Are the readers getting the complete story? Subsidies aside, how can hand agriculture compete with highly mechanized agriculture? It seems to me that there is more to the story than goverments bowing to political pressure.

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 1:59 PM

Nickname: mrrm

Review: A dark day indeed. No 20-20-20, no nothing. Agriculture employs very few people in the rich world, so in the end we (in the EU) pay more taxes for a handful of Paris-basin maize growers, while growers from poor nations (where agriculture is the largest employer) do not have access to our markets. Only their governments have access to our corruption-ridden aid industry. Do you seriously think any poor country peasant has access to export subsidies? In Africa, all you see on the food shelves are EU and US food-stuffs, yet I don't see any African products in all of Europe's supermarkets. You say the US stands to lose; I say all of humanity stands to lose from this awful day.

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 11:16 AM

Nickname: ACE

Review: "First, it put great emphasis on reducing U.S. and European agricultural subsidies, even though those hurt a relatively small group of exporting nations and actually benefit many poor countries, which receive subsidized food exports." How does dumping subsidized, cheap food from the US and EU help poor African farmers? Africans buy the cheap imports from the US and EU, while the African farmers cannot sell their produce. Money is leaving Africa for the US and EU. Nothing is coming back into Africa. Work opportunities are being destroyed in Africa. Investment opportunities are being destroyed in Africa. I do not understand the logic of this statement.

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 9:39 AM