Multilateralism and the Doha Round: A Stock-Taking
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چکیده
The Doha Round, notwithstanding some recent injection of impetus, has a desultory nowit’s-on-now-it’s-off quality to it. To most this lacklustreness is a frustration. If only it could be brought to conclusion, the world would be so much better off, especially if one is to believe the estimates of the gains from trade liberalization that the Round would deliver (an increase in global welfare of about $500 billion according to Bill Cline of the Institute for International Economics).
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