Inside Trade

January 24, 2025

Quote-unquote: In their own words

December 5, 2024 at 12:11 PM
What they’re saying (Okonjo-Iweala) and what they said (Greer). Okonjo-Iweala, a second term secured, in her own words . World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reflects on the work ahead following the organization’s consensus approval of a second term for her. Some of what she said : ‘We live in troubled times .’ “Times of global uncertainty, slower economic growth with inflationary pressures, geopolitical tensions, conflict, and war, pandemics, severe weather-based events arising from climate change, and fast paced...

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