WTO director-general: Emerging economies need to lead for future success

Emerging economies and developing countries must take on more leadership at the World Trade Organization, the WTO director-general said on Thursday, arguing that the “dynamics” have shifted – and successful reform will require that members beyond the U.S. take up this mantle. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate , cited the recently concluded 13th ministerial conference as evidence that “new tensions” have emerged at the organization that belie the assumed “North-South” divide between developed and developing...