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  The future of the WTO: addressing institutional challenges in the new millennium

  World Trade Organization, 2004

  In the light of recent setbacks of the WTO, particularly in Seattle and Cancun, this report looks at the state of the organisation in order to study and clarify institutional challenges and to consider how the organisation can be reinforced to meet these challenges in the future.
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  The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003

  Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.
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  Analytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004

  This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.
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  Towards a development-supportive dispute settlement system in the WTO

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003

  The WTO’s dispute settlement system is not a neutral technocratic process in its structure and operation. This resource paper examines how it may become more supportive of the sustainable development goals of developing countries.
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  Globalizing embedded liberalism: some lessons for the WTO's 'development' round from the New International Economic Order (NIEO)

  Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 2003

  Over the past four decades, efforts have been made at the United Nations to overcome the asymmetrical structure of world trade and distribute the benefits from participation in the trading system more equally.
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  Whither the world trading system? Trade policy reform, the WTO and prospects for the New Round

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2003

  Where does the World Trade Organisation fit in the overall scheme of international public policy? This paper examines the structural features of the WTO, set against the extended background of the world trading system post-Uruguay Round.