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...After a Brazilian, a Frenchman (Pascal Lamy), a Thai (Supachai Panitchpakdi) and a New Zealander (Mike Moore), the Africans think it’s their turn and have a summit scheduled for July to sound out candidates...
...Mr Lamy was preceded by Supachai Panitchpakdi, a Thai. A likely emerging market candidate is Brazil’s current WTO ambassador Roberto Azevedo, also a smart and respected policymaker....
...Mr Azevêdo will not be the first WTO head from the developing world: Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand held that distinction between 2002 and 2005....
...Although there has been a previous WTO director-general from a developing country in Thailand’s Supachai Panitchpakdi, he only served half a term and was not from a Bric country....
...That fits with the conventional wisdom that having had a Frenchman (Lamy) preceded by a Thai (Supachai Panitchpakdi), a New Zealander (Mike Moore) and an Italian (Renato Ruggiero), either a Latin American...
...“This year’s World Investment Report reveals a real and rising interest . . . for investment in developing countries’ agricultural industries,” said Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general of Unctad....
...“Unctad expects the FDI figures to be even higher in 2007 than in 2006,” said Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general of the agency Khalil Hamdani, an Unctad director, said the agency’s “back-of-the-envelope...
...The group of authors – chaired by Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – recommends big changes in the way the ADB operates....
...Bush responded to an uncharacteristically impassioned plea from the normally placid Supachai Panitchpakdi, then the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, who said that the so-called “Doha round...
...Supachai Panitchpakdi, the agency’s secretary-general, said: “There is a lack of balance between the governance and social issues and technological issues.”...
...Supachai Panitchpakdi, chairman of the eminent persons group that wrote the report, said: “The [current] ADB cannot survive in a region with capital surpluses and where the need for loans is less and less...
...Ms Woods says Mr Lamy and Supachai Panitchpakdi, his predecessor, have tried to adapt existing procedures....
...In a speech delivered by Supachai Panitchpakdi, former WTO director-general, he said failure to make big gains in Hong Kong would severely disappoint the world?s poor....
...Supachai Panitchpakdi, outgoing director-general of the World Trade Organisation, doubted that talks beginning next week in Geneva would agree on a negotiating framework for agriculture by an unofficial...
...Supachai Panitchpakdi is nobody’s idea of a firebrand....
...Supachai Panitchpakdi, the WTO director-general, told WTO ambassadors yesterday: “Progress is nowhere near sufficient in terms of our critical path to Hong Kong.”...
...WTO members are expected to select this month a successor to Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand, who is leaving at the end of August....
...Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, read out a speech on behalf of Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general. ?...
...Supachai Panitchpakdi, director general of the World Trade Organisation, on Thursday warned that the Doha round of global trade talks was “close to a crisis”....
...WTO members learnt lessons from the botched selection process in 2000 which resulted in a split mandate between Mike Moore of New Zealand and Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand, and have choosen their new...
...The victor, who will take over from Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand on September 1, will face the immediate challenge of readying a package of interim global trade accords for approval by ministers in...
...Barring a last-minute hitch, he will be confirmed within two weeks and will replace the incumbent, Supachai Panitchpakdi, in September....
...James Wolfensohn will leave the bank at the end of May, Supachai Panitchpakdi will quit the WTO at the end of August and Donald Johnston will leave the OECD in June 2006. Who cares who replaces them?...
...The Paris trade meeting was seen as a chance to get the Doha negotiations back on track and end a period of deadlock that had brought the round close to crisis, according to Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of...
...“I am pessimistic but I want to be proved wrong,” said Supachai Panitchpakdi,the WTO director-general. “We have days. We don't have weeks.”...
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