Back at the @WTO for a while. Formerly @ITCNews, @ICTSD, @IISD_news. Views mine. RT, ❤ ≠ endorsement.
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My letter/rant to the FT on the uses and misuses of globalisation and @rodrikdani's trilemma. ft.com/content/2d86a11a-7b8b…
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21 Oct 2025
WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!! #WANTITALL
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21 Feb 2025
My middle-aged heart is still racing 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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GAME OVER! CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
MATCH FINI! CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
📊 hc.hockey/4NFStats022025
📊 hc.hockey/StatsC4N022025
#4Nations
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16 Dec 2024
Words fail me at this point. I am completely heartbroken and devastated to hear about Zakir Bhai. Ustad Zakir Hussain was a phenomenon. He was indeed one of the most loved musicians the world saw.
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WTO General Council reappoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director-General for a second term @NOIweala dlvr.it/TGT8QZ
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1 Jul 2024
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
And happy 80th anniversary of the start of the Bretton Woods Conference, which ran from 1 to 22 July 1944 at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire.
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5 Jun 2024
Enjoyed @DmitryOpines book launch (amazon.co.uk/Why-Politicians…)
3 comms insights:
D: trust ppl to deal with real trade-offs, don't pretend it's all win-win
@AliceTipping: simplicity - #StopFundingOverfishing not 'reform subsidies sth sth'
@Matthewbarbados: know yr target audience
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13 Sep 2023
. @AvinashPersau15: developing countries need large-scale access to capital on affordable terms to grow sustainably. "The Industrial Revolution was partly funded by - and partly contributed to - the inequities of empire. Let's do the green transition better. " #WTOPublicForum
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2 Jun 2023
Click on this Finance & Development piece w/ @IMFNews MD @KGeorgieva on the centrality of trade to economic interdependence (not over dependence) recovery & growth. Trade as a tool for building global resilience & solving challenges of the global commons bitly.ws/GHiM
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16 May 2023
Other parent to me at the school gate: "We're very late today. Even after you."
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15 May 2023
Robert Lucas is no more.
Though most famous for the eponymous Lucas Critique, his most quoted sentence is from a 1988 paper — On the Mechanics of Economic Development. And, interestingly, he wrote that sentence in the context of Indian economic underperformance.
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8 Mar 2023
I'm no Bayern fan, but at least I can trot out my comparison of PSG to a big firm within an overprotected and uncompetitive domestic market, dominant at home but unable to succeed abroad.
2023 out in R16
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2021 SF
2020 lost in F after single-leg QF, SF
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8 Mar 2023
.@NOIweala on how women, particularly women of colour, often get stereotyped the moment they walk into a room: "Let them underestimate you. Then you take them by surprise." #InternationalWomensDay
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13 Dec 2022
Great thread. The Moroccan version of the film Lagaan needs to be made!
Cc: @ThiruGeneva @ishaantharoor
13 Dec 2022
Morocco beat France 4 to 2, which was not expected. Humiliated, a year later General Nogues (France’s resident general in Morocco) introduced a law that “all Muslim teams need to have a least three players who are French citizens”. Turns out, colonial football teams…
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24 Nov 2022
This is mind-blowing if viewed from Toronto @ncbiswas @BrentToderian @shawnmicallef @BicycleMayorTO @Penalosa_G
24 Nov 2022
Good policy that should be copied 2 of 6: Dutch cycling. It's not just about infrastructure, laws matter too. The Dutch assume that any collision between a car and a bike is the car's fault, unless proven otherwise. That changes the behaviour of motorists.
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1 Nov 2022
Thank you @D_A_Irwin for a fantastic look at 75 years of the GATT/WTO, 200 yrs of efforts to shape global econ integration, & why we'll miss the multilateral trading system a lot if it erodes.
Lester Thurow in 1990: GATT is dead. Rudi Dornbusch: it's not dead, it's just resting.
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10 Oct 2022
An Econ Nobel for the FDR administration:
Diamond & Dybvig showed banks vulnerable to panics - and deposit insurance can help. @FDICgov created in 1933.
Bernanke's pre-Fed research showed deflationary gold standard, bank failures made Depression worse. US went off gold in 1933.
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_ icymi!
Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for Research on Financial Crises - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/10/10/busin…
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