LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Wednesday that the world is in a full-blown economic âdepression,â saying governments need to agree on coordinated measures to get out of it. Brown, who is to host a summit of the Group of 20 advanced and developing nations in April, underlined the need for a rapid agreement on the World Trade Organization (WTO)âs Doha round of trade liberalisation talks. âThe biggest danger that the world faces is a retreat into protectionism,â he told lawmakers at a weekly question session in the House of Commons dominated by the economic gloom. âItâs all the more reason why first of all we should sign the Doha agreement ⦠and secondly we should make sure that every country is analysed for what it is doing by the World Trade Organization to prevent protectionism. âIt also is absolutely clear that we should agree as a world on a monetary and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of depression,â added the British leader, who more usually uses the words recession or http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/02/05/52082/depression-alert-politico-edition/