Aid for Trade Second Global Review: Highlights

http://www.wto.org/ 6.07.09

The Second Global Review provides an opportunity to give added impetus to the ambitious mandate on Aid for Trade, agreed at the WTO's Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in 2005, which aims to help developing countries, and the least developed in particular, to build the supply-side capacity and infrastructure they need to take advantage of trade opening and to connect with the global economy.

Speakers:
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, UN
Pascal Lamy, Director-General, WTO
Angel Gurría, Secretary General, OECD
Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, IMF
Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP
Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank
Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank
Thomas Mirow, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank
Waleed Al Wohaib, Chief Executive Officer, International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation.

More video clips on Aid for Trade and development are available: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

Find more information about the Aid for Trade Second Global Review on the WTO website: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_E/d...

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[jurrassicsparks]

Where is our aid Helen?Christchurch is in dire straights,Isnt it trendy to help a western country?You deserted your own country,ran it to the ground.How about a bit of aid after the earthquakes,we need it more than Pakistan,and the unstable countries you pour money into.