EITHER YOU DISBAND THE WTO OR RESPECT IT’S ABILITY TO TAKE DECISIONS
When in 2005, Pas
cal Lamy was elected by 148 members of the World Trade Organisation to succeed Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi as Director-General, the melancholy of the failure of Doha Development Agenda didn’t even touch his dreams. His jaunty statement – We will place the interests of developing countries at the centre of the world trading system – from the speech on 26 May, 2005, clearly projects his hopes. But things got worse and the hopes faded after the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial of December 2005. The latest in the list of failures is the Geneva talks in the first week of July, 2006. The year 2001 saw the launch of the Doha Round, which was aimed at improving the trading conditions and uplifting millions of poverty-stricken people in developing countries – deadline set as the end of 2005.
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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy,
Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
When in 2005, Pas
cal Lamy was elected by 148 members of the World Trade Organisation to succeed Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi as Director-General, the melancholy of the failure of Doha Development Agenda didn’t even touch his dreams. His jaunty statement – We will place the interests of developing countries at the centre of the world trading system – from the speech on 26 May, 2005, clearly projects his hopes. But things got worse and the hopes faded after the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial of December 2005. The latest in the list of failures is the Geneva talks in the first week of July, 2006. The year 2001 saw the launch of the Doha Round, which was aimed at improving the trading conditions and uplifting millions of poverty-stricken people in developing countries – deadline set as the end of 2005.For Complete IIPM - Article, Click on IIPM-Editorial Link
Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy,
Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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