Developing Resilience to Financial Shocks

States often misuse emergency powers to muzzle protests from owners A global emissions-GDP graph shows the need to cut this ratio tenfold from the current level to meet the climate change targets Liberalisation may have changed so much, but not the Indian ...

REPRESENTATIVES of the 159 member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Geneva last week where they reached consensus on who should head the global trade body: Robert Carvalho de Azevedo of Brazil. Azevedo, a career diplomat and ...

NAIROBI, May 17 (NNN-XINHUA) --United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has nominated former Kenyan trade minister Mukhisa Kituyi to head the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). A statement from the UN body said Thursday that if the ...

Kenya: Dr Mukhisa Kituyi s appointment as United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary makes him only the second Kenyan after President Uhuru Kenyatta with the title, His Excellency. The official appointment yesterday by ...

Mukhisa Kituyi A former Minister of Trade and Industry of Kenya has been chosen to lead the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ). UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Thursday that he has nominated Mukhisa ...

Ailing dictator Michael Sata and his PF regime have continued to be rejected by reputable international organisations. The United Nations has just rejected Lunte MP Felix Mutati to serve as the next Secretary General of the United Nations Conference ...

It is unlikely that one mancan breathe new life into a dead process, but Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevêdo's appointment as director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) fanned faint hopes that the Doha round of world trade talks can be ...

Brazilian diplomat Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo was named the new director general of the WTO with broad support from the developing world, beating out his Mexican rival Herminio Blanco, who was backed by the industrialised nations. The results ...

Late last Tuesday, after months of intense lobbying, and campaigning visits to 47 countries, Roberto Azevedo was confirmed as the next director general of the World Trade Organisation. Amidst the Queen's Speech and the resignation of a certain ...