Back at the @WTO for a while. Formerly @ITCNews, @ICTSD, @IISD_news. Views mine. RT, ❤ ≠ endorsement.
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My letter/rant to the FT on the uses and misuses of globalisation and @rodrikdani's trilemma. ft.com/content/2d86a11a-7b8b…
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Yes, of course we “want it all” - but let us join together before the game, regardless of outcome, and thank and celebrate this great team. Whatever happens they have inspired us and shown us what teamwork and courage look like.
My middle-aged heart is still racing 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
GAME OVER! CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
MATCH FINI! CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
📊 hc.hockey/4NFStats022025
📊 hc.hockey/StatsC4N022025
#4Nations
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Words fail me at this point. I am completely heartbroken and devastated to hear about Zakir Bhai. Ustad Zakir Hussain was a phenomenon. He was indeed one of the most loved musicians the world saw.
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WTO General Council reappoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director-General for a second term @NOIweala dlvr.it/TGT8QZ
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
And happy 80th anniversary of the start of the Bretton Woods Conference, which ran from 1 to 22 July 1944 at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire.
Enjoyed @DmitryOpines book launch (amazon.co.uk/Why-Politicians…)
3 comms insights:
D: trust ppl to deal with real trade-offs, don't pretend it's all win-win
@AliceTipping: simplicity - #StopFundingOverfishing not 'reform subsidies sth sth'
@Matthewbarbados: know yr target audience
. @AvinashPersau15: developing countries need large-scale access to capital on affordable terms to grow sustainably. "The Industrial Revolution was partly funded by - and partly contributed to - the inequities of empire. Let's do the green transition better. " #WTOPublicForum
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Click on this Finance & Development piece w/ @IMFNews MD @KGeorgieva on the centrality of trade to economic interdependence (not over dependence) recovery & growth. Trade as a tool for building global resilience & solving challenges of the global commons bitly.ws/GHiM
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Robert Lucas is no more.
Though most famous for the eponymous Lucas Critique, his most quoted sentence is from a 1988 paper — On the Mechanics of Economic Development. And, interestingly, he wrote that sentence in the context of Indian economic underperformance.
I'm no Bayern fan, but at least I can trot out my comparison of PSG to a big firm within an overprotected and uncompetitive domestic market, dominant at home but unable to succeed abroad.
2023 out in R16
2022 R16
2021 SF
2020 lost in F after single-leg QF, SF
2019 R16
2018 R16
.@NOIweala on how women, particularly women of colour, often get stereotyped the moment they walk into a room: "Let them underestimate you. Then you take them by surprise." #InternationalWomensDay
Great thread. The Moroccan version of the film Lagaan needs to be made!
Cc: @ThiruGeneva @ishaantharoor
This is mind-blowing if viewed from Toronto @ncbiswas @BrentToderian @shawnmicallef @BicycleMayorTO @Penalosa_G
Thank you @D_A_Irwin for a fantastic look at 75 years of the GATT/WTO, 200 yrs of efforts to shape global econ integration, & why we'll miss the multilateral trading system a lot if it erodes.
Lester Thurow in 1990: GATT is dead. Rudi Dornbusch: it's not dead, it's just resting.
An Econ Nobel for the FDR administration:
Diamond & Dybvig showed banks vulnerable to panics - and deposit insurance can help. @FDICgov created in 1933.
Bernanke's pre-Fed research showed deflationary gold standard, bank failures made Depression worse. US went off gold in 1933.
_ icymi!
Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for Research on Financial Crises - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/10/10/busin…
