World Trade Organization
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The World Trade Organization is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. Established on 1 January 1995, pursuant to the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement, it succee
The economists Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire
The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1998, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland)
Aid for Trade is one way the organization functions to help countries that are developing economically.
Public forum where the recently published World Trade Report was discussed.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist who has been serving as the director-general of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first ever woman and also the first African to
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…from all member states. The organization is administered by a Secretariat led by the Director-General; since 2021, this position has been held by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria. The WTO's annual budget is approximately 200 million USD, contributed by members based on their share of international trade. Economic…
Okonjo-Iweala in 2021
Okonjo-Iweala, at the 2004 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group
World Bank portrait, 2008
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua with Okonjo-Iweala, then managing director of the World Bank, in 2008