Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his address to the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on 12 October 2012, said that “based on current information, and holding a number of assumptions to task, the WTO expects trade growth to modestly rebound to 4.5% in 2013 with exports (...)
At the meeting of the Sub-Committee of Least-Developed Countries on 10 October 2012, many members said they were encouraged by a WTO Secretariat report that the value of LDCs’ total exports (goods and commercial services) grew by 23.9 per cent in 2011 to reach US$229.8 billion. However, they (...)
The WTO established a new Reference Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, on 9 October 2012 following an official request by Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment.
The sixth review of the trade policies and practices of Norway takes place on 9 and 11 October 2012. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Norway.
Japan today (8 October 2012) announced it has donated USD 104,698 (about CHF 110,000) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) a programme set up to help developing countries improve their expertise and their capacity to analyse and implement international standards on food safety (...)
روز جهاني معلمان، به ياد تصويب «توصيه نامه يونسكو/سازمان بينالمللي كار در خصوص وضعيت معلمان» در سال 1969، در روز 5 اكتبر گرامي داشته ميشود. شعار امسال روز جهاني معلمان اين است: «براي معلمان موضع بگيريد». به همين دليل، گاي رايدر مديركل سازمان بينالمللي كار نيز در پايان بيانيهي خود كه به همين خاطر دراينجا منتشر شده - و برگردان آن در (...)
كساني كه مباحث توسعهاي را دنبال ميكنند با پروفسور آمارتيا سن آشنا هستند. وي به ويژه در كتابش «توسعه به مثابه آزادي» كه به زبان فارسي هم منتشر شده است، توسعه را به مثابه فرايندي تعريف ميكند كه آزادي انسان را گسترش ميدهد و «ناآزاديهايي» را بر طرف ميكند كه انسانها را با گزينه كمتر و فرصتهاي معدود باقي ميگذارند. كتاب ديگرش «فقر (...)
روز پنجشنبه 24 مه 2012 برابر با 4 خرداد 1391 نشست «شوراي عمومي» سازمان بينالمللي كارفرمايان (سِ.بِ.كاف) با حضور نمايندگان فدراسيونهاي ملي كارفرمايان 78 كشور از 144 كشور عضو اين سازمان و ميهماناني از سازمانهاي بينالمللي و منطقهاي كسب و كار در ژنو برگزار شد. رياست هيأت نمايدنگي كافرمايان ايراني در اين نشست را مهندس محمد عطارديان (...)
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 3 October 2012, said that “we need to explore any and all options, small as they may be, for incremental progress on the negotiating agenda”. He said work in the Doha Development Agenda since the last meeting has seen “signs of (...)
Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the opening of the academic year of the Geneva Graduate Institute with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on 3 October 2012, said: “In his work Development as Freedom, Prof. Sen defines development as a process that expands human freedom and removes those ‘unfreedoms’ (...)