and Representative Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Group Communications Director Founder and Chief Executive Officer Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva Chairman, Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer Chairman Executive Vice-President, Discovery and Development Minist

ly ev- ery country sought to deepen their participation in the global economic system, as witnessed by the number of governments seeking admission to the World Trade Organization. Authorities in the United States and elsewhere predicted that as countries came to accept the rules of the game set down by the WTO, the

intercepted the cyber signatures of parties suspected of © hacking into U.S. government networks. ® Following the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, the surveillance of the Internet became an integral part of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism. In October 2001, Con- gress expanded

uses restored and hotels and restaurants opened to cater for the growing number of tourists. Before the crisis erupted, Syria was negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation and conclude an association agreement with the European Union. But Bashar’s years in power seem to have hardened him. He developed a tas

has held back from thoroughly embracing modernity, even though the Soviet Union started modernizing before China and India. Russia hesitated to join the World Trade Organization and has not yet accepted that ungrudging participation in the current rules-based order can facilitate its own progress. The more Beijing

Fund also could help set standards about exchange- rate policies and serve as a referee that blows a whistle, even if it cannot penalize. The IMF and the World Trade Organization should anticipate this risk and give effect to the existing WTO agreement that economies must "avoid manipulating exchange rates... to ga

Fund also could help set standards about exchange- rate policies and serve as a referee that blows a whistle, even if it cannot penalize. The IMF and the World Trade Organization should anticipate this risk and give effect to the existing WTO agreement that economies must "avoid manipulating exchange rates... to ga