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...DOHA, QATAR Museum of Islamic Art Designed by I.M. Pei, this 376,740-sq.-ft. (35,000 sq m) museum's collection spans three continents and 13 centuries...
...Geneva Free-Trade Failure After seven years of negotiations, the World Trade Organization's Doha round of free-trade talks collapsed over reluctance to relinquish protective trade barriers. Though the U.S. and the E.U. offered to reduce their farming subsidies, talks reached an impasse as China and India, emboldened by their rapid economic growth, insisted on the right to protect their farmers from competition and refused to accept a compromise...
There was a sense of inevitability about the latest collapse in global trade talks. Negotiators, meeting in Geneva, had seemed optimistic a few days earlier, hopeful of a breakthrough in the seven-year-old Doha round. But as so often, hope was no match for the strength of entrenched positions. After the breakdown, there were the usual murmurings that trade ministers might get together again to salvage something from the wreckage. But most observers found it hard to escape the conclusion that, this time, Doha really was dead...
...last decade to see how a concerned public can be mobilized over the Internet. A grassroots campaign that brought together a myriad of small groups first undermined political support for the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and then effectively derailed any hopes of advancement of liberalized trade in the Doha round of negotiations at the World Trade Organization...
...meantime, there are more immediate economic minefields to navigate. Inflation, for example, is surging in cities like Doha and Dubai, driving up the price of everything from food to office space. Nobody is hurt more than the Gulf's millions of ill-paid migrant workers, and this exacerbates the danger of growing labor unrest. One measure that Gulf countries are considering to dampen inflation: a dismantling of the peg that ties their currencies to the beleaguered U.S. dollar...