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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS trade ministers flew home from four days of gruelling talks at last week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong, they could be forgiven for feeling some satisfaction: the end of the Doha Development Round is nigh, probably.…

IRELAND’S Celtic Tiger economy may have lost a little of its bounce recently, with double-digit annual growth figures no longer predicted. However, the beast is still in fine fettle, as a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) observer report notes: "The economy has bounced back.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADE ministers have imposed a tight deadline on World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators to agree detailed goals of the industrial goods section of its Doha Development Round of liberalisation negotiations – April 30. This is the date by which an overall "modalities" agreement must be struck, which will say how much particular bands (by value) of tariffs must be reduced by all WTO member countries.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products, and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
AIR India has predicted that its home country air cargo market will grow at seven per cent between 2002 and 2006, while the global air freight market should grow at 5.3 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL cereal production will be a record 2.04 billion tonnes in 2004, increasing cereal stocks for the first time in five years, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed. Cereal stocks will rise to 441 million tonnes by the close of the 2004/05 growing season, with maize dominating increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has signed the first Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) emissions trading project cutting methane gas pollution from coal mines. The scheme involves the Jincheng Anthracite Coal Group Co. Ltd. capturing coalmine methane for power generation at the Sihe coalmine, Jincheng City, Shanxi province, north-western China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Environment Facility (GEF) and the World Bank are planning to bring off-grid renewable electricity, especially via solar power home systems, to an additional 50,000 Bangladesh households by 2008.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has created a new electronic library simplifying access to more than 1,000 of the UN agency’s publications on work place issues. This ILO Insight archive covers issues including labour, employment, social protection, women at work, occupational safety and health, child labour, management, training, labour statistics and more.…