... representatives of American Right and Left to launch an impressive protest rally against the IMF on the occasion of its annual meeting in Washington D.C. on April 16/17, 2000, following a similar protest against the WTO a year earlier in Seattle, Washington. Loud cries of "Break the Bank, Defund the Fund, Dump the Debt- were heard during these demonstrations. Patrick Bond eloquently summarized the ... and the Fund anywhere in the world, in Australia, Japan, Germany, and Canada. Their intensity has declined considerably, though, as was most evident during the latest of these demonstratio...

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... yearly with growing participation from the global community. The main goals at these summits is global economic stabilization within the context of important political issues. Brink Lindsey, a trade attorney in Washington DC, also believes that free trade will benefit the United States" economy. According to Lindsey, not only will producers benefit from free trade, but consumers will as well. The US ... ...

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... with government and civil society, and work to increase the understanding of development issues. More than 180 member countries whose views and interests are represented by a Board of Governors and a Washington-based Board of Directors own the World Bank. Member countries are shareholders who carry ultimate decision-making power in the World Bank. The Bank uses its financial resources, its ! highly ... ...

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... . They insisted that their huge, trade-distorting agricultural subsidies had to be kept off the table. And even though U.S. industries lacked a unified agenda, they unequivocally rejected negotiations that might limit Washington's powers to prevent the "dumping" of sensitive goods, such as steel, in America at below-market prices. Disputes also emerged over American efforts to expand the marketing of genetically modified ... ...

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... support this view, this points towards an impending economic catastrophe for Hong Kong following China's accession to the WTO. However, as Joseph Yam stated very eloquently in his speech in Washington (spring 2001), "the outlook is somewhat more complicated, and a great deal more positive, than this scenario suggests". He contemplates the "impending catastrophe of China's entry into the WTO" as just ... ...

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