Robert
L. Thompson, Chairman, International Food & Agricultural
Trade Policy Council on "Agricultural Dimension of the Doha
Round Negotiations: Post Mortem on Hong Kong" (January 10,
2006)
Developing
countries are the only potential growth market for
agricultural exporters, said Robert L. Thompson, at a
meeting of the Cordell Hull Institute to review the outcome
of the Hong Kong WTO ministerial conference (more...)
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Dr Shuaihua Cheng,
Counselor,
Shanghai Municipal Development Research Center, on
"Scapegoat for failed domestic policies", published
in the Financial Times
It
was wrong to make global trade a scapegoat for domestic policy
failure. Most of these problems arise from domestic unwillingness
and incapacity to respond to the opportunities and challenges that
trade liberalisation brings |
Professor of International Political Economy
and
Founding Director, The Evian Group
The reason we must all take an active interest in global trade
policy generally and specifically the current Doha Round is that the
implications and consequences go well beyond purely commercial
activity and indeed beyond economics |
Getting the WTO Negotiations Back on
Track (November 25, 2003)
Governments should prepare to re-launch the Doha Round
negotiations in 2005 at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial
conference in Hong Kong and aim to complete them early in 2007, Clayton Yeutter
urged |
Extension of U.S. Trade-negotiating Authority
(October 30, 2003)
Delegations to the World Trade Organization in Geneva are
struggling, following the Cancun debacle, to find a basis on which
to re-start the Doha Round negotiations |
Prospects for Cancun (September 8,
2003)
In a preview of the Cancun Ministerial on September 10-14, David Woods,
the former WTO spokesman, said that with governments deadlocked over
agriculture it was difficult to foresee a worthwhile agreement
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Avoiding Stalemate in the Doha Round
(April 15, 2003)
Peter Sutherland, the WTO�s first
director-general, who is now BP�s chairman, said that the
�development� perspective of the Doha Round negotiations needs to be
more carefully thought through |
Developing countries are the only
potential growth market for agricultural exporters, said Robert
Thompson, former Director of Agriculture and Rural Development at
the World Bank
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Need for Ambitious Objectives in the
Doha Round (March 31, 2003)
"The United States believes that this great worldwide venture needs
to target grand trade goals: to slash agricultural subsidies and
tariffs; to eliminate tariffs on industrial and consumer goods; and
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