Trade and development report update: April 2024
The report forecasts global economic growth to 2.6% in 2024, barely above the 2.5% threshold commonly associated with a recessionary phase. The report says the prevailing focus on inflation overshadows
Trade
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Campaign against illegal trade of orchids
In a bid to conserve the rare species of orchids found in the North-east, around 10 non-government organisations working for the conservation of orchids, have decided to intensify the campaign against illegal trade of orchids from the region. The organisations further decided to launch a massive awareness drive, which will begin with the setting up of orchid banks across the State.
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India for rule-based multilateral trading system
P. S. Suryanarayana Doha Round talks will
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Climate Change for fisheries and aquaculture
Decrease in fisheries production likely
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Crop protection stewardship in India: Wanted or unwanted
Use of pesticides in India has substantially increased in recent years. It is increasingly becoming an inevitable input in intensive agriculture systems, which have mainly been fuelled by changes in cropping pattern and practice. Survey results confirmed that there has been a widespread lack of awareness on pesticides and their appropriate handling among the applicators in India. Implementation of alternate pest management strategies to reduce pesticide consumption was found to be ineffective.
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Indore declared town of exports excellence
Indore has become the first city in the state to have been declared as a Town of Exports Excellence. An announcement to this effect was made by Union commerce and industry minister, Kamalanth here on Tuesday. Showering the Union government's largesse on Indore, Kamalnath said that declaration of Indore as a town of exports excellence, will boost up export activities in the region.
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Behind the July failure of the WTO talks on Doha
A gross imbalance in the World Trade Organisation proposals in agriculture and industry explains why the latest attempt in July to achieve a breakthrough in the Doha round collapsed. The US demand that developing countries institute a stringent special safeguard mechanism in agriculture that would make it different for developing countries to protect themselves against import surges was not the only obstacle.
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Manganese assault
US trade arm throws weight behind toxic petrol additive to prevent a ban on it in Europe in what looks like a diplomatic offensive to protect toxic trade, us -based Afton Chemicals has lobbied hard with the American government to mount pressure on European regulators to prevent the proposed ban on its product, Manganese Tricarbonyl Methylcyclopentadienyl (mmt). Afton, producer of fuel
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Ranbaxy in a spot
about a month after the Japanese drug company, Daiichi Sankyo, acquired majority shares in Ranbaxy, India
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On tenterhooks in Geneva
Developing countries push for markets at WTO mini-ministerial Farmers
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The contribution of Chinese exports to climate change
A new study by Chris Weber et al. estimates that up to a third of China's CO2 emissions are embodied in exports. The emissions calculations include both combustion of fuels and industrial processes in the supply chain to produce Chinese exports. 27% of China's export emissions are attributed to the U.S., 19% to the EU-27, 14% to the remaining Annex B countries, and 40% to the non-annex B developing world. Improvements to China's inefficient and coal-based electricity system would be good for everybody.