A useful update certainly as far as I was concerned, on how progressive opinion has been forced to shift around within the UN. What I wonder are the more positive foci of thinking in international bodies?
But thanks especially for ...
> By the way, UNCTAD had promoted the Tobin tax, until Jesse Helms
>and his colleagues passed a budget rider that prohibited payment to
>any international organization studying any sort of international
>taxation. So that potato was dropped.
Why aren't we fighting for it?
Chris Burford
London.