David Ricardo

once the workshop of the world. We need to rediscover that latent gift and instinct, but it would be insane to ignore the insights of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. We need secure supply chains — but we should still rely on the laws of comparative advantage and the invisible hand of the market. Many countries im

lthy and noble people, to whom I send my greetings from this rostrum, as I also greet the rest of the world’s people. Like the illustrious Panamanian Ricardo J. Alfaro, who took part in the international conference in San Francisco when the Charter of the United Nations was drafted there in 1945, I stand h

n Ashe for his work at the head of the General Assembly. I wish to convey the brotherly greetings and solidarity of President Rafael Correa, Minister Ricardo Patiño and the citizens’ revolution. Four years ago today, Ecuador suffered an attempted coup d’état in which there was an attempt against the life o

country into a democratic and dynamic society that is progressing at a steady pace under the current Administration of the President of the Republic, Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal. As a result, Panama is now considered the second most competitive economy in Latin America, according to the World Economic Foru

iversal forum on behalf of a people which last November renewed its commitment to democracy. Representing the constitutional Government headed by Mr. Ricardo Maduro Joest, who has made the welfare of his people the essence of his mandate, I come with a message of peace and friendship from Honduras addresse

As President Ricardo Lagos stated in Monterrey, If trade barriers were eliminated, the developing countries would have the potential to earn $130 billion, more than twice

In a significant advance, on the occasion of the recent meeting of Presidents of South America, the Presidents of Bolivia and Chile, Hugo Bánzer and Ricardo Lagos, reiterated the willingness of their Governments to enter into dialogue on all topics relating to bilateral relations, without exception, in or

of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we recall with respect and admiration the work carried out by the great Panamanian internationalist Mr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, who was instrumental in the drafting of this document that is so important to humanity. We will always be attentive to the need for United

Last Friday, I October, Ricardo de la Espriella, President of Panama, and Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, had a working meeting in Washington, a meeting of the greate

8 by this Assembly, is to be found in the first draft on this question submitted to the General Assembly by the head of the delegation of Panama, Mr. Ricardo J. Alfaro. The ratification by Panama in 1976 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on

As regards Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal Zone, Panama's position has never varied. "The strip of land known as the Panama Canal Zone", as Mr. Ricardo J. Alfaro put it, "has been neither purchased nor conquered nor annexed by, now ceded nor rented to, the United States, nor has its sovereignty been

Ricardo J. Alfaro, by his distinguished contribution to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, crystallized what for Panamanians is a cre