![The Mexican countryside has suffered under the free trade agreement with the US [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131227355358734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
A just global trade regime should be a priority on WTO agenda.
![Although it has taken a step in the right direction, the IMF's insistence of a 'one size fits all' policy won't work [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012129161425526734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The International Monetary Fund is moving in the right direction, but still has more to do.
![Nations such as Brazil, Peru, South Korea, Uruguay, Taiwan and others have regulated stock, bond, currency and derivatives markets to stem the inflows of short-term capital flows into their nations in the wake of the crisis [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/201292510019145580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Loose monetary policy and slow growth in the industrialised world has “caused a surge in harmful financial flows”.
![Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff referred to unstable capital flows as a "liquidity tsunami" [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/20124810253242580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The IMF should address the extent to which numerous trade and investment treaties violate the IMF Articles of Agreement.
![During the 1990s, the IMF used a 'one-size-fits-all' plan for countries in economic crisis [GALLO/GETTY]](/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20118494814299140_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Though some of its troubling policies remain, the financial crisis has triggered constructive new thinking at the IMF.
![China has become the largest source of finance for Latin American governments [REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2011120134949117140_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The US used ‘dollar diplomacy’ to gain influence in Latin America; now the Chinese are beating the US at its own game.