Statement for the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation
Since its creation, the WTO has harmed the world’s poor. It has forced developing countries to open their markets to heavily subsidized imports, undermining local food production and industry. Policies to develop domestic production and industries are penalised, locking them into raw material extraction and commodity dependence. It has concentrated wealth and power in rich […]
WTO MC14 Campaign Briefer
Today, the WTO is collapsing under its own contradictions. Powerful countries that peddled liberalisation in a purported rules-based multilateral system have openly flouted it. It has long failed to uphold its development mandate, kicking away the development ladder for the South and denying it the needed policy space for industrialisation and food sovereignty. This […]