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Lori Wallach United States

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Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, Lawyer from United States

Lori Wallach is one of the best known and most vocal critics of many of the trade agreements associated with corporate globalization. She is the Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, a non-profit organization founded in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena. By profession a trade lawyer, she has written a number of books and articles on trade and her comments have been widely broadcast on CNN, ABC, CNBC and CSPAN.

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Lori Wallach

How free is ‘Free Trade’?

Lori Wallach talks about the unethical nature of multi-lateral trade agreements such as NAFTA and the seventeen agreements enforced by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many WTO…

Recorded: 13 April 2005

Lori Wallach

What have the effects of ‘Free Trade’ been? (Part One)

In the first part of this two-part series, Lori Wallach explains how the name of free trade was usurped by multinational corporations and right-wing think-tanks in the early 1990s.…

Recorded: 13 April 2005

Lori Wallach

What have the effects of ‘Free Trade’ been? (Part Two)

Lori Wallach discusses the impact of unfair trade rules such as those of NAFTA and the WTO, established in 1994 and 1995 respectively. She gives examples of how biased trade regulations…

Recorded: 13 April 2005

Lori Wallach

Do foreign investors have too much power?

Lori Wallach explains how existing WTO agreements empower corporations at the expense of national governments, but are not absolute in their demands – requiring government…

Recorded: 13 April 2005

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