<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - WTO</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/wto?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><description>WTO</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Consensus on The Global Economy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61452-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61452-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Officials from the world's leading finance ministries and central banks concur that financial turmoil triggered by a plunge in the U.S. dollar could erupt sometime in the future unless strong steps are taken to shrink "global imbalances."]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-7 Issues Upbeat Growth Outlook]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59575-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59575-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite last week's sudden plunge in stock prices, top economic policymakers from the world's richest countries expressed confidence that the global economy remains on track for "solid growth" this year.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest of Meetings Of Finance Leaders Is Colorful, Subdued]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59447-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59447-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A couple of hundred protesters outnumbered police and took over parts of downtown Washington Saturday, using puppets and percussion to send their message to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund during the groups' spring meetings.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt Help From G-7 Urged by Protesters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57478-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57478-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Protesters kicked off a weekend of anti-globalization demonstrations with a lone drum and  just over 50 people outside the Treasury building yesterday.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank's Chief Named to Gaza Post]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53037-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53037-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Seeking to shore up the fledgling peace process between the Palestinians and Israel, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday announced the appointment of outgoing World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn to oversee the crucial nonmilitary components of Israel's impending withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank-IMF Protests Set This Week]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48197-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48197-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Opponents of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund announced yesterday that they would stage two days of protests to coincide with annual meetings the two institutions will host beginning Friday.]]></description><author> Paul Schwartzman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[$4.5 Billion in Aid Pledged For Postwar Efforts in Sudan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45986-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45986-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nations and international organizations on Tuesday pledged $4.5 billion over three years to help southern Sudan build government institutions and alleviate poverty as it recovers from a two-decade civil war.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legislature Overrides Ehrlich on Free Trade]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45460-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45460-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Maryland legislature gave new impetus yesterday to a growing movement among politicians at the state level to reject provisions of free-trade agreements that apply to state governments.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigrants Enlisted for Trade Pact]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32802-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32802-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. officials are reaching out to immigrant business owners in their effort to win congressional approval of a free-trade agreement with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank Sees Peril in U.S. Deficits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32826-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32826-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, April 6  --  Continued high U.S. budget and trade deficits could sharply cut economic growth in developing countries by driving up interest rates and weakening the dollar, the World Bank said Wednesday.]]></description><author> Joe McDonald</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Promises More Help to Ukraine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24568-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24568-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush, celebrating the recent Orange Revolution in Ukraine as a "powerful example of democracy for people around the world," promised its visiting leader yesterday that he would help the former Soviet republic move closer to the West and eliminate decades-old trade barriers.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Loudoun Landowners Want to Save Zoning Controls]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26355-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26355-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After years doing international development work in communities from Sri Lanka to Russia, Pamela and Malcolm Baldwin moved to 28 acres outside the tiny town of Lovettsville, just a few miles from the Potomac River and Virginia's northern edge, to start a farm.]]></description><author> Michael Laris</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Opens Challenge to Chinese Textiles]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26484-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26484-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration took a giant step Monday toward imposing new caps on imports of Chinese clothing, responding to complaints that China's export juggernaut is starting to dominate the worldwide apparel market.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Expansive and Prolific Theologian]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21546-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21546-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the most prolific pope of modern times  --  he produced 14 major policy statements, or encyclicals, plus hundreds of apostolic letters, homilies, speeches and articles  --  John Paul II was hard to pigeonhole as a theologian.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['He Consoles Those Who Have Nothing']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22128-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22128-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY<br>Wearing a black lace veil and clutching a picture of Pope John Paul II, an elderly woman here explained why she saw the pope as a personal hero, not some faraway leader from Rome.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's Place in the World]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17315-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17315-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A common theme unites several new books critiquing the Bush administration's foreign policy: that Washington's go-it-alone tendencies have eroded America's international standing and left the country dangerously isolated. But even as the administration's critics generally agree on the effects of President Bush's foreign policy, they disagree on its origins.]]></description><author> Charles A. Kupchan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Leveling]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17314-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17314-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   THE WORLD IS FLAT<br>  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century]]></description><author>Reviewed  Warren Bass</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz Approved  as World Bank Leader]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17519-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17519-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Approval comes two weeks after President Bush nominated the former deputy defense secretary, a move that will put a Bush administration appointee at the helm of the giant anti-poverty institution for the first time.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E.U., Canada Warn of Tariffs Over U.S. Anti-Dumping Law]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16917-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16917-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The European Union and Canada said yesterday that they will begin imposing punitive duties May 1 on several American exports because the United States has failed to repeal a controversial anti-dumping law that was ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not an Issue For the WTO]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17355-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17355-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/wto</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Much has been made recently of the warming of U.S.-European relations.]]></description><author> Peter Mandelson</author></item></channel></rss>