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Redefining S-S Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage

Workshop on Environmental Change in sub-Saharan Africa

Third IBSA Summit Academic Forum

WTO Public Forum 2008: Trading into the Future

20th Annual Meeting of Senior Officials of the Group of 77

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Global Financial Meltdown: The West and the Rest

Yash Tandon, Executive Director, South Centre, Geneva

The debt-financed US-led global economy is crumbling. What lessons can the leaders of the South learn from the present meltdown of the Western capitalist system? There are six lessons that can be offered.

The first lesson, surely, is that contrary to mainstream thinking, the market does not have a self-corrective mechanism. In the present crisis the “market makers” are watching nervously from the sideline as the Congress and the politicians huddle together to see how to bail out the banks. The leaders of the South have been instructed in innumerable reports and policy recommendations by “experts” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as well as Northern politicians that they should let their economies be ruled by the market.

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Delhi Summit Declaration (3rd Summit of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum)

15 October 2008 The Prime Minister of India, H.E. Dr Manmohan Singh, the President of Brazil, H.E. Mr. Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva, and the President of South Africa, H.E. Mr. Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (thereafter referred as �the leaders�) met in New Delhi, India, on 15 October 2008, for the 3rd Summit of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum.
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Rebalancing the TRIPS Agreement and Strengthening Enforcement for Development

Ambassador Sun Zhenyu, Permanent Mission of China to the WTO in Geneva, Geneva

After years’ implementation of the TRIPS Agreement, continued complaints have been heard, particularly from many developing countries. During the Doha Round this has been an implementation issue. There is also a fundamental question about where is the right place for the discussion of intellectual property rights. Many developing countries and NGOs believe that the IPR issue should have been dealt with by WIPO rather than the WTO or other international organizations.