The agricultural trade issue in the Uruguay Round highlights the trend towards fragmentation among LDCs: the fundamental underlying differences between the interests of agricultural exporters and food importers are hard to reconcile. These differences are analysed in the following article.

The Group of Twenty (G-20) deserves credit for opening up of the "top table" of global governance to a wider representation of countries on a geographic basis in general and Asia in particular. As both a crisis committee in terms of the reverberations from the 2008 financial crisis and a...