Trineesh Biswas

Back at the @WTO for a while. Formerly @ITCNews, @ICTSD, @IISD_news. Views mine. RT, ❤ ≠ endorsement.

[Trineesh Biswas @TrineeshB]

My letter/rant to the FT on the uses and misuses of globalisation and @rodrikdani's trilemma. https://t.co/mmfR9cMZYh

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!! #WANTITALL

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My middle-aged heart is still racing 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[Hockey Canada @HockeyCanada]

GAME OVER! CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

MATCH FINI! CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

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#4Nations

[Amjad Ali Khan @AAKSarod]

Words fail me at this point. I am completely heartbroken and devastated to hear about Zakir Bhai. Ustad Zakir Hussain was a phenomenon. He was indeed one of the most loved musicians the world saw.

[WTO @wto]

WTO General Council reappoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director-General for a second term @NOIweala https://t.co/YYmbjBUGg4

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Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

And happy 80th anniversary of the start of the Bretton Woods Conference, which ran from 1 to 22 July 1944 at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire.

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Dewey defeats Truman, courtesy the Guardian #EURo2024

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Enjoyed @DmitryOpines book launch (https://t.co/iHkMf9kqKn)

3 comms insights:

D: trust ppl to deal with real trade-offs, don't pretend it's all win-win
@AliceTipping: simplicity - #StopFundingOverfishing not 'reform subsidies sth sth'
@Matthewbarbados: know yr target audience

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. @AvinashPersau15: developing countries need large-scale access to capital on affordable terms to grow sustainably. "The Industrial Revolution was partly funded by - and partly contributed to - the inequities of empire. Let's do the green transition better. " #WTOPublicForum

[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @NOIweala]

Click on this Finance & Development piece w/ @IMFNews MD @KGeorgieva on the centrality of trade to economic interdependence (not over dependence) recovery & growth. Trade as a tool for building global resilience & solving challenges of the global commons https://t.co/htoFf3Oqxr

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@kmac @PaulBlustein would know; if memory serves he wrote about it in one or two of his books.

This @B_Eichengreen JEP paper https://t.co/oo730HPgjd puts Krueger's proposal in context, and briefly describes how it failed to advance

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Other parent to me at the school gate: "We're very late today. Even after you."

[Niranjan Rajadhyaksha @CafeEconomics]

Robert Lucas is no more.

Though most famous for the eponymous Lucas Critique, his most quoted sentence is from a 1988 paper — On the Mechanics of Economic Development. And, interestingly, he wrote that sentence in the context of Indian economic underperformance.

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@SoumayaKeynes @FT Congratulations! Look forward to reading your byline. (And maybe crossover podcast episodes with @ChadBown?)

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@mattyglesias Even if people were singing the early Industrial Revolution's praises - and Engels' Pause suggests many weren't - it would hardly have mattered: most people didn't have the vote. The UK's 1832 Reform Act sharply expanded the franchise - to 18% of the adult male population.

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@tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK @DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK In the 1820s, even as the British elite celebrated their own growing empire, the UK supported Greek independence from the Ottomans. Did anyone see an inconsistency?Was it about balance of power politics? Or did they simply view Greeks as civilised and Indians as not?

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I'm no Bayern fan, but at least I can trot out my comparison of PSG to a big firm within an overprotected and uncompetitive domestic market, dominant at home but unable to succeed abroad.

2023 out in R16
2022 R16
2021 SF
2020 lost in F after single-leg QF, SF
2019 R16
2018 R16

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.@NOIweala on how women, particularly women of colour, often get stereotyped the moment they walk into a room: "Let them underestimate you. Then you take them by surprise." #InternationalWomensDay

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.@Lagarde at the @wto for #IWD2023: "Trade can empower women, and women can empower trade."

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@RajaKorman @razibkhan @vjgtweets @vpostrel Was it that tailoring and custom-made clothes were cheap or that ready-made clothes were rare and therefore expensive?