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The 1994 agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO)
regulates over 95% of world trade amongst 148 member countries. The
November 2001 Declaration of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of
the WTO in Doha, Quatar, has launched the Doha Development Round of
multilateral trade negotiations in the WTo on 21 topics aimed at
far-reaching reforms of the world trading system. On August 1st
2004, the WTO General Council reached agreement on a detailed Doha
Work program with the aim of concluding negotiations in 2006. This
volume provides discussion and policy recommendations by leading
WTO negotiators and policy-makers, and analysis by leading
economists, political scientists and trade lawyers on the major
subjects of the Doha Round negotiations. Over 30 contributors
explore the complexity of the world trading system and of the WTO
negotiations for its reform from diverse political, economic and
legal perspectives.
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