UNCTAD as the Battleground for Role of the State, Trade Policy

"We’ve featured past Real News Network segments on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. UNCTAD has increasingly become a forum for struggles between advanced economies and developing economies over what the rules of the road should be in trade. UNCTAD was early to call the benefits of financialization into question, and has also been taking issue with the comparatively small take countries in the “south” get from extended supply chain production. This, needless to say, is a vision that is a direct challenge to how multinational like to conduct their affairs, so it should be no surprise that the big, rich countries are trying to bring UNCTAD to heel.

From the Real News Network (hat tip Aquifer):..."

at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/unctad-as-the-battleground-for-role-of-the-state-trade-policy.html