The obsolecence of WTO
Daniel Altman exaggerates just barely when he warns of the obsolescence of WTO in a Newsweek column in honour of this week’s WTO General Council meet...
Tag: doha
Experts still optimists on Doha
Andrew Stoler, Director of the Institute for International Trade at Adelaide University and former Deputy Director-General of WTO has published t...
Doha do-dah day
Here’s a happy little tune from the trade Ministers of Brazil, China, India, South Africa. Issued from the Mountain Tops of Davos: “In particu...
Back and forward (and back) in Geneva
News services have all picked up a statement by the U.S. negotiator for agriculture in WTO in which he claims there’s been “some progress” in the Doha neg...
Why the Doha Round is failing
The usually well-informed ITSCD Bridges Newsletter tries to explain it with a bit of tabloid alliteration: ‘Political Paralysis Poisons WTO Agricul...
Positions diverge on Doha negotiations
Another cold shower for WTO: last week’s attempt in Geneva to sketch out some ‘common ground’ failed. National negotiating teams were said to be shocked...
Schubert and the GATT
From a 1984 speech to the Confederation of British Industry by Hugh Corbet, then Director of the London-based Trade Policy Research Centre. The situation* puts...