Trouble Brewing on the Eve of Next Month's WTO Summit

The poor old World Trade Organization lurches toward a round in Hong Kong to help poor countries despite the opposition of these countries. But, beleaguered as it is, the WTO is all we've got between the world and the law of the jungle.

By Luke Eric Peterson

Published November 16, 2005

Churchill, as every school child of a certain age will recall, once remarked that democracy "is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time". The same might be said of the World Trade Organization (WTO) the global body charged with tending the flame of free trade.

Despite all the vitriol heaped on the WTO, there's a reason why cerebral development...

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