Trade and Its Critics. In Seattle, NGOs exposed how they perpetuate third world poverty, writes Barun S. Mitra in The Telegraph, Calcutta, 21 December 1999.
Did India Gain from Seattle? in the Perspective section of The Economic Times on 14 December 1999, Barun Mitra is one of the three contributors. Mitra argues that India would be better off if she takes a sovereign decision to universally and unilaterally eliminate all the self-imposed barriers to trade.
WTO Protestors Punish the Poor in Seattle, Barun S. Mitra in The Asian Wall Street Journal on 9 December 1999, points out the misconceived nature of the protests in Seattle during the WTO ministerial meeting. He points out that the talks failed primarily because of the attempts by the US and some other countries to push through uniform environmental and labour standards on developing countries which could hardly afford such neutralisation of competitive advantages. Ironically, the failure to liberalise trade further may retard economic growth in the poorer economies. Consequently the environment may be even more endangered and the children and the poor further impoverished.
International Assemblies and the Role of
Free Market NGO’s, in Atlas Highlights,
J. Bishop Grewell, a columnist for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and
a Research Associate with PERC (the Political
Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana, writes about the ways to
expose the fallacies perpetrated by the protestors on the streets of Seattle.
The Highlights is the newsletter of Atlas Economic Research Foundation,
USA. Atlas Foundation is dedicated
to promoting free market oriented organisations around the world
World Trade Organization: Take Two, J. Bishop Grewell looks closely at some of the issues raised by the protestors in Seattle in Bozeman Daily Chronicle, on 22 December 1999.
Seattle: A failure without losers, Arvind Panagariya in The Economic Times on 13 December 1999.
WTO protects India, Swaminathan S. A. Aiyar in The Sunday Times on 12 December 1999.
Trading Politics, Narendar Pani in The Economic Times on 10 December 1999.
Why the Seattle bombed, Omkar Goswami in The Economic Times on 8 December 1999.
Comments and suggestion are welcome. Please help us identify other significant articles dealing with various aspects of international trade, and the implications of the protests in Seattle. Please write to Liberty Institute
