Article: Free trade's best friend; World trade.(Reforming the World Trade Organisation)

The WTO is worth boosting

FOR anti-globalisation activists, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) embodies the global economic integration they abhor. For insular lawmakers, notably in Washington, DC, the Geneva-based institution is a secretive, unelected bureaucracy that infringes national sovereignty. Even advocates of free trade have their doubts about the WTO's usefulness: after all, the Doha round of negotiations is hardly roaring ahead.

All these doubters would do well to read a new report on the future of the WTO by eight "wise men" led by Peter Sutherland, the trade body's first director-general. The report not only offers the rousing defence of ...

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