Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174767 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ECIPE Policy Brief No. 9/2012
Publisher: 
European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Brussels
Abstract: 
This policy brief surveys the state of the multilateral trading system, tracing the gradual decline of the Doha Round negotiations and the emergence of new regional and plurilateral initiatives. It concludes that the model of the negotiations followed in the Round in recent years has been overtaken by events. It is however at this stage not clear whether the new initiatives now being pursued outside the WTO will have a catalytic effect on the multilateral trading system or will fragment it. There is a danger of squandering the legacy so painstakingly built up in the GATT and the early years of the WTO, which have contributed to decades of orderly and peaceful economic growth. For this reason it is vital that governments urgently take steps to rebuild confidence in the WTO. This confidence can be restored through governments committing themselves to a strategic dialogue leading to a new consensus on the objectives and general principles underpinning their activities in the WTO.
Document Type: 
Research Report

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