"We have to redirect development assistance, so that helping developing countries focuses on keeping them up to date with trade regulations, and not on building costly roads and bridges," he said.
Audience members represented a spectrum of opinions, although European students were a predominant part of the crowd.
"I was extremely interested in Lamy's ideas on which morals the West should impose on developing countries," said Ronaldo Rauseo-Ricupero '04.
One graduate student asked Lamy about the contentious issue of trading British meat.
"I have to know if you'll be eating any beef while you're in the U.S.," the student said.
Lamy quipped that he planned to eat hormone-enhanced American beef to help him buff up for his upcoming marathon.
But Lamy was serious when he discussed the WTO's need, when faced with a decision between a trade opening measure and a health control measure, to always pick the latter.
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