NEW YORK – The massacre in Norway in July 2011 and the recent attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, were the work of right-wing e…

NEW YORK – Politics in Asia’s two giants, India and China, has suddenly turned very uncertain. China remains in authoritarian mode, of cours…

NEW YORK – If George Orwell were alive today, he would be irritated, and then shocked, by the cynical way in which every lobby with an axe t…

NEW YORK – The Doha Round, the latest phase of multilateral trade negotiations, failed in November 2011, after ten years of talks, despite o…

NEW YORK – The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank, over Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-…

NEW YORK – The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritoc…

NEW YORK – So much has been written, by so many, against the muddled ideas that have now overwhelmed good sense on trade policy in the Unite…

NEW YORK – While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a diff…

MUMBAI – As if undermining the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks was not bad enough (the last ministerial mee…

NEW YORK – The 17th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, popularly known as COP-17, is taking place in Durban, South…

NEW YORK – Many on the left are suspicious of the idea that economic growth helps to reduce poverty in developing countries. They argue that…

NEW YORK – The indifference and apathy that one finds in Washington from both the Congress and President Barack Obama on the Doha Round of w…

NEW YORK – Outsourcing of services has been a persistent cause of panic and protectionism in recent years, especially in the United States s…

NEW YORK – It is now apparent that the United States is the main culprit in preventing the ten-year-old multilateral trade negotiations know…

NEW YORK – Contrary to what skeptics often assert, the case for free trade is robust. It extends not just to overall prosperity (or “aggrega…

BRASILIA – In a recent commentary, I drew on the Interim Report of the High-level Trade Experts Group, appointed by the governments of Brita…

NEW YORK – The Doha Round, the first multilateral trade negotiation conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, is at a cr…

HONG KONG – The feud in Bangladesh between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank…

NEW YORK – The Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTN) is the first negotiation to take place under the auspices of the World Tr…

NEW YORK – The current twin crises in finance and the real economy, what Americans call Wall Street and Main Street, and the interminable di…

LONDON – In a recent symposium in the Financial Times on globalization’s prospects in 2011, the columnist Gideon Rachman observed that, “Whe…

NEW YORK – I just returned from India, where I was lecturing to the Indian Parliament in the same hall where US President Barack Obama had r…

NEW DELHI – When US President Barack Obama visited India in November and complimented its leaders on the growing success and prowess of thei…

NEW YORK – Increasingly, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organizations, to take on specific “corporate…

NEW YORK – Economists generally agree on the advantages of openness in trade. But the case for non-discrimination in trade is also a compell…