Hopes rise for vital reform talks

This article forms part of a FT Special Report 'G8 Summit'. The early signs of economic recovery that governments claim to have spotted in the spring of 2009 have yet to brighten the almost universally dismal picture of world trade.

Pascal Lamy, WTO director-general, who was at the G8 meeting, says concluding the long-stalled Doha round of global trade liberalisation talks would be the best way to forestall pressures for protection and give a useful $150bn boost to the world economy.

RIIA: Briefing Paper, June 2009: From London to L'Aquila: Building a Bridge between the G20 and the G8 http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/757/

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