Globalists
by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
to get this fuckin’ show back on the road.… We’ve got to rebrand!”54 The subsequent trade round, still not completed, was dubbed the “Doha Development Round” in what participants later conceded was a blatant act of public relations. The new brand was given another name when Pascal Lamy used the term
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Arrived? A Report on Trade Liberalisation and Economic Recovery (London: Trade Policy Research Centre, 1984), 78. 138. Stuart Harbinson, “Lessons from the Launching of the Doha Round Negotiaations,” Cordell Hull Institute Trade Policy Roundtable, April 18, 2002, 7. See also the lecture series established in Tumlir’s honor by the European Centre
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–9, 13, 20, 23–25, 105, 183, 198, 201, 264, 266; Appellate Body, 257, 274; directors-general, 241, 273, 276; Dispute Settlement Body, 257, 260; Doha Development Round, 276; drafters of, 256; protest at Seattle meeting, 275–280; transformation of GATT into, 223, 257 Yale University, 244 Yamey, Basil, 172, 221 Yergan, Max
The Globalization of Inequality
by François Bourguignon · 1 Aug 2012 · 221pp · 55,901 words
poor countries have only limited access to the manufactured goods markets of developed countries. For several years now, the “Doha negotiations,” first known as the “Doha Development Round,” which are organized by the World Trade Organization, have been attempting to improve this situation. However, these negotiations have become bogged down and have effectively
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by Dani Rodrik · 23 Dec 2010 · 356pp · 103,944 words
to international trade collapsed amid much acrimony and finger-pointing. These talks, organized under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and dubbed the “Doha Round,” had been ongoing since 2001. For many anti-globalization groups, they had come to symbolize exploitation by multinational corporations of labor, poor farmers, and the
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, the value of trade agreements and diminish the incentive to sign on to them. Consider what happens if we continue on our current path. The Doha Round of trade negotiations, with which the world’s trade officialdom remains preoccupied, focuses on reducing the remaining barriers at the borders, especially in agriculture. The
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after another. Despite all the hoopla that accompanies these negotiations, it is safe to say that the prospective gains from a successful completion of the Doha Round are quite small—even paltrier than the one third of 1 percent of world income that a movement to full liberalization would entail. Of course
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merit; indeed, there is little appetite for it after the disappointments of the last GATT trade round (the Uruguay Round)—and for understandable reasons. The Doha Round’s troubles are indicative of the impasse in which the trade regime finds itself. They exemplify the problems of the prevailing low-return, high-cost
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. In fact, the gains would outstrip comfortably any other proposal currently on the table, including the entire package of trade measures being considered under the Doha Round of negotiations! Labor markets are the unexploited frontier of globalization. It may seem surprising to suggest that labor markets are not sufficiently globalized. The news
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of world GDP, an effect that would be barely noticeable in practice. See Bouët, “The Expected Benefits from Trade Liberalization.” 14 The travails of the Doha Development Round are chronicled in Paul Blustein, Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations (New York: Public Affairs, 2009). 15 Robert Z. Lawrence, Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Deeper Integration
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by Ndongo Sylla · 21 Jan 2014 · 193pp · 63,618 words
assessment of the model they promote. The need to study Fair Trade also arises from current affairs. As part of the ongoing multilateral negotiations – the Doha development round – the issue of trade preferences being given to the poorest countries is regularly debated, as are the effects of the obvious protectionism of rich countries
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in the long term than an economic growth model based on agricultural exports. In fact, in the framework of the discussions as part of the Doha round of multilateral negotiations, the Fairtrade experience described here could be considered as a very small-scale example of the possible distributive effects of liberalising agricultural
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countries, immigrants from the South would enjoy net gains of $265 billion per year. This is considerably higher than gain estimates as part of the Doha round of negotiations ($30 billion according to Rodrik). 29. Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden are the five countries that reached this target of 0
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, 22, 38, 40, 41, 45, 56, 126, 140, 147; supermarkets, 21, 39, 40, 52–3, 77, 79, 106; Carrefour, 157 (n4); Leclerc, 55 Djibouti, 135 Doha development round, 5, 151, 162 (n28); see also World Trade Organization Doherty, Neil, 162(n23) Dominica, 91, 134 Dominican Republic, 134 Doussin, Jean-Pierre, 156(n9), 160
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by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
’d see a lot less talk and a lot more action. Begin with the End in Mind. The most recent WTO negotiations, known as the Doha Development Round, carried on for seven years—then collapsed in 2008. Rather than focus on specific goals, the agenda was saddled (by the United States) with additional
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by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 15 Mar 2015 · 409pp · 125,611 words
alone those at the bottom. ______________ * New York Times, March 15, 2014. THE FREE-TRADE CHARADE* THOUGH NOTHING HAS COME OF THE WORLD TRADE Organization’s Doha Development Round of global trade negotiations since they were launched almost a dozen years ago, another round of talks is in the works. But this time the
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; rather, two huge regional agreements—one transpacific, and the other transatlantic—are to be negotiated. Are the coming talks likely to be more successful? The Doha round was torpedoed by the United States’ refusal to eliminate agricultural subsidies—a sine qua non for any true development round, given that 70 percent of
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by Jason Hickel · 3 May 2017 · 332pp · 106,197 words
so immense that a second round of WTO negotiations was called to address some of the inequities that protestors had brought to light. But the Doha Development Round – as it came to be known – offered little more than window dressing. Western nations have continued to refuse to back down from their agricultural subsidies
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by Richard Haass · 10 Jan 2017 · 286pp · 82,970 words
II, 57, 65, 67 and South Asia, 184–85 and Syrian crisis, 171–72 and weapons of mass destruction, 132–33 See also United Nations Doha (Development) Round, 146–47 East China Sea dispute, 90, 181 economics, 9–11, 90, 248–49 and post–Cold War global cooperation, 145–49 post–World War
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by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words
people stand together behind it. Consider for a moment what we—for lack of a stronger, broader sense of belonging—have failed to do. The Doha Development Round of global trade talks, meant to improve poor world access to rich-world markets, was stillborn in Seattle, then formally revived in Doha in 2001
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by Michael Lind · 20 Feb 2020
Trade (GATT) and, more recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) effectively reduced most traditional tariff barriers. By 2016, when the WTO effectively terminated the failed Doha Development Round of global trade talks, the United States and other leading industrial nations had shifted the emphasis from removing barriers restricting the cross-border flow of
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