The Geneva Consensus - Pascal Lamy

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Résumé :
Provides unique insights into how open trade interacts with other economic and social policies to tackle the challenges of globalization.

Biographie:
Pascal Lamy was Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 2005 until 2013. Between 1999 and 2004, he was Commissioner for Trade at the European Commission under Romano Prodi. Dr Lamy holds degrees from the Paris-based ?cole des Hautes ?tudes Commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) and from the ?cole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He began his career in the French civil service at the Inspection G?n?rale des Finances and at the Treasury. He then became an advisor to the Finance Minister Jacques Delors, and subsequently to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.

Sommaire:
1. Harnessing globalization amid the crisis facing multilateralism; 2. The changing face of trade; 3. Helping the poorest up the prosperity ladder; 4. Trade: friend not foe of the environment; 5. Trading towards global food security; 6. Trade can contribute towards better health ; 7. Trade and labour: separated at birth but still connected; 8. Trade and energy: the case for a greater WTO role; 9. Trade and currencies: trading community seeks greater currency stability; 10. Trade and competition: fairer competition makes for fairer trade; 11. Trade and human rights: a case of misplaced suspicion; 12. Last but not least: the Doha Round.