This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between...

On March 13-14, 2003, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade convened an informal meeting of leading observers of international trade and investment to discuss prospects for the Doha Development Agenda. This paper represents a thematic summary of those discussions, which were...

Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is an ambitious programme for the developing countries declared in the WTO Doha Ministerial Conference in 2001. When looking beyond the DDA and the issues which are likely to be discussed in the coming Cancun Ministerial, the consensus is unlikely. The present...