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The WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international
organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its
heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the
world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is
to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as
possible.
The WTO and the International Trade Centre (ITC)
ITC is the joint cooperation agency of
UNCTAD and WTO for business aspects of trade development. Originally
created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1964,
ITC has been operated since 1968 under the joint aegis of GATT/WTO and
the UN, the latter acting through the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD). It is the focal point in the UN system for
technical cooperation with developing countries and economies in
transition in trade promotion and export development.
Hospitality in Scotland
Key Issues for the Future of the Sector. This briefing shares findings
from research with hospitality employers and workers on potential future
developments for the hospitality industry in Scotland, identifying
actions that governments and the industry could take to alleviate issues
around in-work poverty in the sector.
Trust in the media is at all time low in the UK
Between 1981, when the World Values Survey
began, and 1990, the share of the British public reporting they had
confidence in the press halved, falling from 30% to 14%. Since then,
trust has failed to recover. |
