Recent efforts to forge a consensus on the role developing countries should play in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions have focused attention on climate friendly technologies (CFTs). The effectiveness of technology-based climate strategies will depend critically on the rates at which CFTs...

Trade and investment are of paramount importance to achieve sustainable development thereby eradicating poverty. Developing countries were strongly arguing on this issue. Their argument emanates from the fact that the terms of trade between the developing and developed countries are unfair. All...

There is no part in the world without violence. The violence has therefore become a dreadful pandemic in the world. The violence hurt both rich and poor countries. There are a number of ways in which economic networks can add to regional conflicts. Regional trade routes may be a means by which...

In the Uruguay Round Agreement, the rules governing agricultural trade were changed fundamentally. Members have agreed to convert all non-tariff agricultural barriers (NTBs) to ordinary tariffs, to bind all agricultural tariffs, and to subject them to reductions. Members have also agreed to...