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G20 leaders must step up efforts to resist protectionism

  The OECD, WTO and UNCTAD have called on G20 governments to step up efforts to resist protectionism in the face of continuing high unemployment and a weak economic recovery.   In their eighth report to the G20, the organisations say that strengthened multilateral co-operation is needed and urge countries to show leadership in keeping markets open.   Readings: Read the News release. Read the Report. Read the Freedom of investment at the OECD.

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French minister Fleur Pellerin launches the “Say OUI to France” campaign

In October, 2012, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Fleur Pellerin, the French Minister Delegate with responsibility for SMEs, Innovation and the Digital Economy, held an early breakfast meeting with theUStechnology press to mark the launch of the joint INPI/IFA "Say OUI to France – Say OUI to innovation" campaign. The meeting was held on the fringes of EmTech, a major international trade show on emerging technologies organized by the MIT TechnologyReview. This is the signature to the new...

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