Doha Round—Squaring the Triangles

Agriculture in the Doha Agenda

The paper looks at the OECD domestic political economy associated to ongoing WTO farm negotiations, focusing on the OECD-based coalitions which could be helpful for WTO negotiators. Support from individual final consumers and taxpayers is far from being guaranteed–because consumers are spending less and less on food, and because taxpayers support, more or less willingly, non-trade concerns, suc...

Economic Development and the WTO After Doha*

This paper analyzes what actions could be taken in the context of the WTO Doha negotiations to assist countries to benefit from deeper trade integration. It discusses the policy agenda that confronts many developing countries and identifies a number of focal points that could be used both as targets and as benchmarks to increase the likelihood that WTO negotiations will support development. To ...

Agricultural trade reform under the Doha

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Achieving Fairness in the Doha Development Round

The question addressed in this article is how the fairness of the global trading system as embodied in the GATT/WTO is to be assessed. Opinions about what constitutes fairness differ widely, and there is surely no incontrovertible yardstick. But it should be possible to be clearer about the criteria that are appropriate and what they mean in more operational terms. Why fairness is a condition o...

The Ill-Balanced Triangles of the Islamic States in Crisis