Recommended reading

Doha: a route out of poverty?

( Kym Anderson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2004)

At the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Doha in November 2001, members agreed to launch the next round of multilateral trade negotiations. However, many developing c...

Doha Round Briefing Series

( International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2005)

This set of 13 briefing papers provide an update on events leading up to and beyond the Kong Hong Ministerial Meeting in December 2005, written in an accessible way. They provide necessary contextual ...

Sailing close to the wind: navigating the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial

( B. Lilliston / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy , 2005)

This briefing book looks in depth at some of the key issues being negotiated at the Hong Kong ministerial (2005). It includes fact sheets that provide a quick overview, and in-depth reports on some of...

Doha: a dangerous numbers game

( J. Purugganan / Focus on the Global South , 2007)

With all the attention on reducing tariffs for developing countries, what has happened to the development goals of the Doha Round? This article outlines the measures that the US and other developed co...

Africa and the WTO Doha Round: An Overview

( M. Friis Jensen; P. Gibbon / Development Policy Review , 2007)

Developing countries, and especially Least Developed Countries, were promised a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ‘Development Round’ at Doha in 2001, but Sub-Saharan African countries have gained little...

Completing the Doha Round

( J. Schott / Institute for International Economics, USA , 2006)

What are the major challenges for promoting an effective solution to the Doha Round? This article poses this question and offers opinions on where some of the major sticking points are.

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