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instrument of counterterrorism. The Round, launched in November, 2001, was supposed to make the world safe for free trade, but … organizations (“VEOs”) in the post-9/11 world. The gains were intended to be channeled, in no small part, to poor, marginalized …
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After the debacle in Seattle in December 1999, the Fourth Ministerial Conference of WTO members took place successfully under tight security in the capital city Doha of the small Arabian state of Qatar in November 2001. The Doha conference did not adopt any new treaty or protocol to add to the...
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The Doha Round of negotiations held during November 2001, have set an Agenda, for development, Trade and Intellectual Property compliances, by discussing the TRIPS Agreement. This was followed by Ministerial discussions held in Cancun in 2003, Geneva in 2004, in Honkong in 2005 and again in...
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Facilitating economic development of developing countries has become an important agenda in the world trading system …, currently represented by the World Trade Organization, will depend on bridging these gaps between developed and developing … regulatory reform to promote development in the current system. The paper also proposes organizational reform in the World Trade …
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This paper illustrates some of the potential consequences of the WTO's Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer...
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Empirical evidence suggests that global trade reforms are unlikely to produce analogous results across countries, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of trade reform on social welfare cannot be generalized and needs to be conducted on a country by...
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An applied general equilibrium model is used to assess the impact of multilateral trade liberalisation in agriculture, with particular emphasis on developing countries. We use original data, and the model includes some specific features such as a dual labour market. Applied tariffs, including...
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This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade … reform over the next decade. The World Bank's Linkage model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of … helping to reduce poverty. A Doha partial liberalisation could take the world some way towards those desirable outcomes, but …
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This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade … reform over the next decade. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of …, thereby helping to reduce poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could take the world some way towards those desirable …
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The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in …
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