PARIS, France – Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), confirmed that growth in global trade would remain below 4% this year and urged governments against protectionism.
Annual growth in world trade has averaged 6% over the past 15 years, but this year “we will be below four percent,” Lamy told France’s BFM radio, blaming the slowdown on a sluggish world economy.
But Lamy said the rough patch should not be an excuse for political leaders to give in to protectionism “which makes no sense.”
“The world has crossed this crisis without a protectionist tsunami, but there are preoccupying signs that the WTO is watching over closely,” Lamy said.
In April, the WTO warned that world trade growth, which slowed in 2011 after a big rebound in 2010, would weaken again this year and grow by 5.6% in 2013. – Agence France-Presse
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National Teachers Month
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September
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety, and Sanitation Month
Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 5)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday: International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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