Development Quote by Anna Lindh

It is important to understand that the WTO, like the United Nations, is a weak international agency which depends upon financing and support from…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this…

— Daniel Altman

WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

We have always been at our best as a country when we have been a global trading nation and this role offers us the…

— Penny Mordaunt

Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for…

— Kevin Hassett

If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years…

— Condoleezza Rice

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist…

— Frank Gaffney

At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for…

— Maude Barlow

A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

— Ban Ki-moon