Predictably, the cheerleaders for corporate globalization are bemoaning the collapse of World Trade Organization negotiations.
"This
is a very painful failure and a real setback for the global economy
when we really needed some good news," said Peter Mandelson, the
European Union's trade commissioner.
Even worse, says the
corporate globalization rah-rah crowd, the talks' failure will hurt the
developing world. After all, these negotiations were named the Doha
Development Round.
"The breakdown of these talks is bad news for
the world's businesses, workers, farmers and most importantly the
poor," laments U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue.
But
don't shed any tears for the purported beneficiaries of the WTO talks.
If truth-in-advertising rules applied, this might have been called the
Doha Anti-Development Round.
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