A Development-friendly Prioritisation of Doha Round Proposals
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A Development-friendly Prioritisation of Doha Round Proposals
THE ‘Doha Development Agenda’ of November 2001 puts poverty-reducing economic growth at the centre of the WTO’s considerations. If the development focus of the Doha Round is to be a meaningful operating principle, then the overriding task of the round must be to ensure that the liberalisation agreements promote development in poor countries. In practice this means prioritising reforms which yie...
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عنوان ژورنال: The World Economy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0378-5920,1467-9701
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00683.x