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WTO at 30 after decades of challenges
Oped, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Published on 30/07/2025
» When I sat down to write an article "WTO at 10" for a commemorative book for the occasion in 2005, little did I know of the huge challenges the WTO and the multilateral trading system would have to confront in the following two decades.
TPP: A template for global governance?
Business, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Published on 06/11/2015
» If one objectively contemplates the monumental effort made over the past five years by the negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), it’s hard not to imagine how far the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organization (WTO) could have been advanced with just half that effort. After all, we're talking about 12 powerful trading nations accounting for 26% of global trade volume and 40% of world GDP.
Signs of trouble
News, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Published on 18/08/2012
» Large billboards dot the landscape of Bangkok in every direction, creating not only a visual hazard but a physical one as well. Despite stringent safety standards, they still collapse, killing and maiming people.