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Monday, December 03,
2001
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‘Engage
early and vigourously, and seek market access’
Monday,
December 03, 2001 |
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The WTO expert seems
to be in love with India’s forts. When (then) US president
Bill Clinton came here in March 2000, as his deputy US
trade representative Ambassador Susan G Esserman
went around the Agra Fort. She returned awestruck! This
time, as part of Ambassador Frank Wisner’s US-India Business
Council team, Ms Esserman decided to do a dekko of Delhi’s
Red Fort. Ms Esserman spoke to Rohit Bansal
of The Financial Express. |
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‘Supachai
will spend more of his time with the OECD’
Saturday,
November 24, 2001
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Pascal Lamy gives
one last look to a somewhat unflattering piece on him
in The Financial Express, and leaps forward
energetically. The handshake is firm, its clasp not
betraying his 54 years. The bald pate is the only give-away!
As four assistants shuffle around the hotel suite, the
French civil servant-turned Credit Lyonnais banker-turned
trade commissioner carefully stubs a Corp Diplomatique
cigarillo, stares for a few seconds in concentration
and hisses, “Ready!”. Excerpts from a conversation with
Rohit Bansal.
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I’m
back with many trophies from the battlefront: Murasoli
Maran
Monday,
November 19, 2001 |
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With
his pencil-thin moustache and his long sideburns commerce
minister Murasoli Maran looks like
a comical villain in a spaghetti-western movie. Looks
can be, and in this case most certainly are, deceptive.
Mr Maran is a tough nut to crack. A heart patient with
a pacemaker who literally lives his second life having
recovered from a massive heart attack, 67 running on 68,
Mr Maran is a live wire and shows no signs of exhaustion
and sleepless nights. Excerpts from a free-wheeling interview
with Sanjaya Baru of The Financial Express. |
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‘The
rich worry about longevity, the poor about life and death’
Tuesday,
November 13, 2001 |
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Supachai Panitchpakdi,
55, is courteous to a fault. As he settles down to this
interview by the breathtaking view of the sea from Doha’s
Ritz Carlton, one frequently has to crane one’s neck
closer to the incoming WTO director-general to catch
the precise expressions he chooses to use to describe
his herculean task beginning September 1, 2002.
Excerpts of the interview with Rohit Bansal.
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‘Talk
new issues and get maximum dividend’
Saturday,
November 10, 2001 |
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We should not agree to
new negotiations unless we are offered huge concessions
at the WTO, suggests Abhijit Sen, professor
of economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. In an interview
with Amiti Sen, Prof Sen, who is also an
agriculture expert, says India should discuss the issue
of greater market access for the developed countries in
agriculture products only if they agree to reduce subsidies. |
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