Paul Collier, an economist and author of The Bottom Billion, discusses five steps to sustainable resource management in Africa.

With the Doha trade round in danger of slipping from our grasp, it has become commonplace to assert that the food crisis, while a tragedy, is a shot in the arm for the talks. In this Financial Times op-ed, Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya find that only one such argument passes muster—the fact that high food prices should soften U.S. opposition to lower agricultural subsidies, thereby relaxing key constraints on the final compromises necessary to reach an agreement on agricultural liberalisation.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave this speech to the Economic Club of Toronto in Ottawa, Canada on June 20, 2008.

Seoul's conservative government is struggling to reconcile its foreign policy goals with the popular sentiments of its people.

Trade between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council has spiked in recent years, with potentially broad economic and geopolitical consequences.

Robert Driskill, economics professor at Vanderbilt University, says economists need to do a better job of explaining the benefits of free trade.

EU policymakers debate cutting farm subsidies as legislators on both sides of the Atlantic consider how trade distortions fit into the global food crisis.

Sino-Gulf trade is booming as the world's two most liquid economies create a host of new alliances that are shifting the world's economic center of gravity

James Surowiecki writes that despite the Democratic presidential candidates' negative rhetoric on free trade, average Americans have generally benefited from free trade with China "in the sense that it's made their dollars go further than they otherwise would have."

The Wall Street Journal says anti-free trade activists and labor unions have pressured Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) into committing to making various pro-labor trade reforms. Business interests are concerned that these new requirements could "make it impossible for the U.S. to sign trade deals with developing countries such as Egypt, Pakistan and India that have growing markets but lousy labor records."

T.A. Frank looks back on his experience as a factory inspector for a "corporate social responsibility monitoring" firm. He wonders if the Democratic candidates' proposals for tougher labor standards in free trade agreements are enforceable.

South Asia expert Bruce Riedel sees the continuing development of U.S.-India ties as a major accomplishment of President Bush, who has built on steps taken by his predecessor.

Pennsylvania voters have made their choice in the Democratic primary, and like other U.S. states economic concerns continue to be the dominant theme in this election.

Beijing’s hunger for commodities has brought a trade boom with Australia and New Zealand, but protectionist concerns could block further liberalization.

Democrats in the House threaten to derail a free trade deal with Colombia, another sign of shifting U.S. attitudes.

Many analysts say NAFTA has not had as devastating an impact on the U.S. job market as the Democratic candidates claim, the New Republic reports. Still, John Judis writes, the trade agreement has stressed the U.S. work force by driving up illegal immigration to the United States.

Robert Scott of the Economic Policy Institute and Daniel Ikenson of the Cato Institute debate how the next U.S. president should deal with China on trade.