Doha roundLula da Silvamultilateral trade cooperationinterest groupsveto playersUnder the Cardoso presidency (1995鈥 2002), Brazil adopted a reactive and defensive posture on trade liberalization. However, when Lula da Silva came into power in 2003, Brazil took a more offensive and proactive position...
15 Market Access Liberalisation in the Doha Round: Scenarios and Assessment None of these scenarios precisely reproduces a given proposal. We take the removal of nuisance tariffs from various scenarios but set up a reasonable threshold. We rely on a (truncated) Swiss formula whereas various ...
The Doha Development Agenda is the first "round" of multilateral trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization and is also the first time that multilateral trade talks have explicitly sought to focus on the interests of developing countries. Developing Asia therefore has much at stake in the...
Proposals of particular interest to developing countries, including aid for trade and duty- and quota-free treatment for least-developed countries, might also be pulled off the table. Given their experience with the Uruguay Round, it is not surprising that developing countries are waiting for ...
Last World Cup performance:Mexico regularly reach the round of 16 and go no further – as was the case in 2018. Key man:Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano. The Napoli winger has touches of brilliance on the ball that has garnered interest from Premier League and La Liga teams. ...
There is growing recognition that a proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements will complicate the way business is done, and therefore a need to get the Doha round restarted. ITC has promoted business advocacy in the developing world for quite some time. We continue to be engaged ...
In 1999 it was intended to start the millennium round but due to several different events it was never started. And it was decided by working groups that it will not be started until the first ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar in 2001. Inbuilt agenda of 2000 on agriculture and trade in ...
Solving the differences between developing countries and the US over Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and pharmaceuticals could be the key to launching a new round of trade negotiations in Doha. The commitment of developing countries to reaching a satisfactory agreement on this issue...
This paper uses automated text analysis to explore the different approaches of the EU and US, two of the world's largest markets, to the round between 2001 and 2007. It assess the extent to which these two actors have used development rhetoric to placate interest groups at home and make ...
Doha roundWTOagrarian lobbyinterest groupsUSinternational trade policyThe article is devoted to analysis of the present condition of WTO and Doha round. The agrarian lobby in the US is studied, as well as the history of its formatSocial Science Electronic Publishing...