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WTO Media Backgrounder provides concise briefs about issues affecting the WTO and issues relevant to the mini-WTO Ministerial to be held in Sydney on 14 -15 November.
For more detailed background information and contact details for our experts, click here
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Don't forget, Exports matter
Austrade's Chief Economist, Tim Harcourt, eloquently explains how trade benefits workers. For details click here
Protest activities
Protesters have publicised activities. For details of what they plan and who is involved, click here
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WTO - The Facts! is published by www.worldgrowth.org. Its aim is to publicize the facts about the WTO and global economic development. The facts speak for themselves.
Justice and global equality
The WTO and globalization are delivering economic justice to poor countries [Click here]
Eradicating poverty
The WTO expands trade and reduces poverty [Click here]
How the WTO helps Australians
It can expand trade for Australian companies and farmers and increase jobs for Australian workers [Click here]
Who supports the WTO?
Developing countries strongly support the WTO. That they oppose it is a myth [Click here]
Who opposes the WTO?
Environmental and social development NGOs in rich countries oppose the WTO, along with leftist groups, militant groups and some trade unions [Click here]
WTO---The Facts! is supported by www.worldgrowth.org
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#6 Refugees? War? What about a trade issue?
Joining any old issue to their protests against the WTO shows that the protesters simply don't care [Click here]
#5 WTO Sydney - the real issues: Agriculture
Action in the Doha WTO negotiations can radically raise standards in developing countries by allowing them benefits of open markets [Click here]
#4 The environment debate in the WTO coercion or co-operation?
How the WTO deals with the environment is the most controversial issue in the Doha negotiations [Click here]
#3 WTO - Bali, Nike and what matters
Why do two or three thousand people want to protest violently against the WTO in Sydney next week? [Click here]
#2 Sydney WTO - Backgrounder
Most complaints about the WTO are baseless. In our view the facts speak for themselves [Click here]
#1 Why the WTO Matters to Developing Countries
The WTO matters to developing countries; it is time to refute the myths that it does not [Click here]
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