Top Leaders Pledge to Help Poor Economies to Reap Benefits from Global Trade a WTO/ADB news release, reports that top global and regional financial officials at a 2007 conference pledged to help small and weak states in Asia and the Pacific build and strengthen capacity to benefit from trade and spur economic growth to alleviate poverty. Nearly two dozen finance and trade ministers gathered for the two-day regional review meeting “Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Asia and the Pacific” hosted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Trade Organization (WTO), in association with the Philippine Government. Officials from key donor countries and private sector representatives also attended the meeting.

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