Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor of Law and Economics at Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A renowned expert on international trade, he has served in top-level advisory positions for the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, including Economic Policy Adviser to the Director-General, GATT (1991-93), and Special Adviser to the UN on globalization. He is the author of many books, including In Defense of Globalization.
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Commentaries by Jagdish Bhagwati
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Trading In Hate
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…
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The Bell Tolls for India’s Congress Party
NEW YORK – Politics in Asia’s two giants, India and China, has suddenly turned very uncertain. China remains in authoritarian mode, of cours…
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Rio’s Unsustainable Nonsense
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…
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The Broken Legs of Global Trade
NEW YORK – The Doha Round, the latest phase of multilateral trade negotiations, failed in November 2011, after ten years of talks, despite o…
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The World Bank’s Wrong Choice
NEW YORK – The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank, over Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-…
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Obama’s Blunder at the Bank
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…
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Free Trade Ad Nauseam
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…
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The Brain-Drain Panic Returns
NEW YORK – While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a diff…
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America’s Threat to Trans-Pacific Trade
MUMBAI – As if undermining the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks was not bad enough (the last ministerial mee…
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Deadlock in Durban
NEW YORK – The 17th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, popularly known as COP-17, is taking place in Durban, South…
Trading In Hate
Avinash Mascarenhas: Anders Behring Breivik is not a neo nazi nor he is a christian bigot. Read the manifesto before jumping to conclusions.
Trading In Hate
Gary Marshall: The Nazis were socialists, big, squandering, government socialists. Would you get it right? The fellow who killed those people in a theater was not a right wing extremist. The Japanese intern…