Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What is at Stake for Developing Countries?
This article: a) summarizes the costs of current merchandise trade distortions to developing and other economies; b) examines some scenarios that might emerge as part of an eventual Doha agreement consistent with the 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial decl...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/17753021/doha-merchandise-trade-reform-stake-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16426 |
| Summary: | This article: a) summarizes the costs of
current merchandise trade distortions to developing and
other economies; b) examines some scenarios that might
emerge as part of an eventual Doha agreement consistent with
the 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial declaration, particularly
with respect to agriculture; and c) draws implications for
the strategies developing countries might adopt in the World
Trade Organization's (WTO's) Doha round of
multilateral trade negotiations. This article estimates what
the world economy might look like in 2015 without and with a
successful conclusion to the Doha round, how far Doha could
take the world toward an outcome with no distortions in
merchandise trade, and what contribution various elements of
a Doha package could make. |
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