The Wto After Hong Kong: Progress In, and Prospects For, the Doha Development Agenda

by Lee, Donna; Wilkinson, Rorden

• ISBN13: 9780203961094
• ISBN10: 0203961099
• Copyright: 2007-06-05
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

After the World Trade Organizations (WTO) critical December 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, negotiations to implement the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) broke down completely in the summer of 2006. This book offers a detailed and critical evaluation of how and why the negotiations arrived at this point and what the future holds for the WTO. It brings together leading scholars in the field of trade from across the social sciences who address the key issues at stake, the principal players in the negotiations, the role of fairness and legitimacy in the Doha Round, and the prospects for the DDAs conclusion. The WTO after Hong Kong is the most comprehensive account of the current state of the World Trade Organization and will be of enormous interest to students of trade politics, international organizations, development and international political economy.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Lits of abbreviations	p. xiv
Setting the scene	p. 1
The WTO after Hong Kong: setting the scene for understanding the Round	p. 3
Trade, development, and the Doha Development Agenda	p. 26
Key issues	p. 35
WTO agriculture negotiations and the Global South	p. 37
Intellectual property and the Doha Development Agenda	p. 56
Services, economic development, and the Doha Round: exploiting the comparative advantage of the WTO	p. 73
Principal players	p. 95
How the poor pay for the US trade deficit: and why it matters for the Doha Development Agenda	p. 97
Negotiating with diminished expectations: the EU and the Doha Development Round	p. 119
The cotton club: the Africa Group in the Doha Development Agenda	p. 137
The periphery strikes back? The G20 at the WTO	p. 155
The shift from duopoly to oligopoly in agricultural trade	p. 169
Fairness and legitimacy	p. 187
Ail's fair in love and trade? Emerging powers in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations	p. 189
Democracy, development, and the WTO's legitimacy challenge: assessing the Doha Development Round	p. 205
Concluding the Round	p. 227
The Doha Round and its impact on the WTO	p. 229
Building asymmetry: concluding the Doha Development Agenda	p. 248
Index	p. 262
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