"Trade improves the lives of people" - Lamy

The following is from a 17 April 2012 speech by Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Minnesota Economic Club in Minneapolis, United States on 17 April 2012, said that “trade improves the lives of most people around the world”. He added that singer Bob Dylan’s words “the times they are a changing” still ring true today in world trade.

This speech is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl224_e.htm