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Author | : Anna E. Richter |
Publisher | : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2014-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3954893177 |
The Doha Development Agenda, may go down in history as the slowest development round of all times. Starting in 2001, negotiations have been going on for 13 years and collapsed on several occasions in the meantime. With regards to its goal to ensure developing countries, and especially the least-developed among them, a share in the growth of world trade, barely any progress was made. To the extent that one may question how legitimate it is to call the Doha Round a Development Round at all. Especially the notorious point of trade liberalization in agriculture has delayed the negotiations. While the WTO member states agreed on cutting tariffs and reducing agricultural subsidies, opinions differ sharply on exemptions for certain products from these broad ruled. In another critical point, services, negotiations have hardly progressed. The WTO negotiators have missed every deadline agreed upon and various observers suggested to drop the entire venture. The aim of this paper is to find the reasons for the slow progress in order to see if the obstacles may be overcome and the Doha Round might be completed successfully.
Author | : Kristen Hopewell |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1503600025 |
The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have played out in one of the most important theaters of global governance: the World Trade Organization. Hopewell argues that the collapse of the Doha Round negotiations in 2008 signals a crisis in the American-led project of neoliberal globalization. Historically, the U.S. has pressured other countries to open their markets while maintaining its own protectionist policies. Over the course of the Doha negotiations, however, China, India, and Brazil challenged America's hypocrisy. They did so not because they rejected the multilateral trading system, but because they embraced neoliberal rhetoric and sought to lay claim to its benefits. By demanding that all members of the WTO live up to the principles of "free trade," these developing states caused the negotiations to collapse under their own contradictions. Breaking the WTO probes the tensions between the WTO's liberal principles and the underlying reality of power politics, exploring what the Doha conflict tells us about the current and coming balance of power in the global economy.
Author | : Gary Clyde Hufbauer |
Publisher | : Peterson Institute |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0881325600 |
The Doha Round marked its eighth birthday in November 2009, making it the longest running multilateral trade negotiation in the postwar era. Doha participants continue to disagree about prospective liberalization of agriculture and manufactures and have barely begun to consider reductions in barriers to trade in services. Negotiators have missed every deadline to conclude the talks, leading some to question the viability of the entire venture. After nearly nine years of inconclusive meetings, the trade talks are at a tipping point: A global trade deal is still possible with renewed political commitment to trade reform, but continued drift could result in the first outright failure of a multilateral trade round in the postwar era. This policy analysis shows that the Doha Round can still be successfully concluded with a concerted push by the major trading nations. Contrary to the Doha doomsayers, the potential gains from proposals now on the table are significant, albeit not sufficient to close a deal. The authors estimate the trade gains and GDP gains from a prospective Doha deal that "tops up" existing commitments to liberalize agriculture, manufactures, and services. They also suggest what each of the major trading nations needs to do to ensure the successful completion of a Doha package that is both ambitious and balanced between the interests of developed and developing countries.
Author | : Kym Anderson |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2005-11-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821362402 |
Providing the most complete and up to date analysis of the range of agricultural issues under negotiation in the multilateral trade negotiations underway in the World Trade Organization (WTO), this title is a valuable resource to policymakers, agricultural private sector, and academics in developing and assessing the negotiating options.
Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780215028525 |
The Doha Development Agenda placed the needs and interests of developing countries at the heart of the current round of world trade talks by seeking to redress existing imbalances in the multilateral trading system which work against their interests. The Committee's report focuses on the process and outcome of the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting, and makes policy recommendations to the UK Government and the European Commission about how to best ensure that the Doha Round can achieve a positive and ambitious outcome for the developing countries and to contribute most to poverty reduction.
Author | : Kristen Hopewell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108834795 |
One of the first analyses of the impact of US-China rivalry on the governance of global trade.
Author | : Richard E. Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781907142239 |
The global financial crisis of 2008/9 is the Great Depression of the 21st century. For many though, the similarities stop at the Wall Street Crash as the current generation of policymakers have acted quickly to avoid the mistakes of the past. Yet the global crisis has made room for mistakes all of its own. While governments have apparently kept to their word on refraining from protectionist measures in the style of 1930s tariffs, there has been a disturbing rise in "murky protectionism." Seemingly benign, these crisis-linked policies are twisted to favour domestic firms, workers and investors. This book, first published as an eBook on VoxEU.org in March 2009, brings together leading trade policy practitioners and experts - including Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Initially its aim was to advise policymakers heading in to the G20 meeting in London, but since the threat of murky protectionism persists, so too do their warnings.
Author | : Neyire Akpinarli |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004178120 |
The absence of effective government, one of the most important issues in current international law, became prominent with the failed state concept at the beginning of the 1990s. Public international law, however, lacked sufficient legal means to deal with the phenomenon. Neither attempts at state reconstruction in countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia on the legal basis of Chapter VII of the UN Charter nor economic liberalisation have addressed fundamental social and economic problems. This work investigates the weaknesses of the failed state paradigm as a long-term solution for international peace and security, arguing that the solution to the absence of effective government can be found only in an economic and social approach and a true universalisation of international law.
Author | : Joseph E. Stiglitz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199887004 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today--how can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments. The book illuminates the reforms and principles upon which a successful settlement must be based. Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses, Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the problems of world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in globalization and development in the Third World.
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Publisher | : EQUATIONS |
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