Download or read book Africa in the Doha Round written by Yongzheng Yang and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving market access in industrial countries and retaining preferences have been Africa's two key objectives in the Doha Round trade negotiations. This paper argues that African negotiators may have overlooked the potential market access gains in developing countries, where trade barriers remain relatively high and demand for African imports has expanded substantially over the past decades. As reductions in most-favored-nation tariffs in industrial countries will inevitably lead to preference erosion, African countries need to ensure that the Doha Round leads to liberalization in all sectors by all World Trade Organization (WTO) members, so that the resulting gains will offset any losses. Such an outcome is more likely if African countries also offer to liberalize their own trade regimes and focus on reciprocal liberalization as a negotiation strategy rather on preferential and differential treatment.
Download or read book Africa and the WTO Doha Round written by Michael Friis Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries, and especially Least Developed Countries, were promised a WTO Development Round at Doha in 2001. In fact, the Round's agenda became dominated by topics and proposals of little relevance and at times threatening for some groups of developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, African engagement in the Round has been generally low and defensively articulated, though some fringe gains have been achieved. If and when the Round is revived, these could be complemented by a more aggressive stance on preferences. This, in turn, will need to be backed by greater exploitation of the heightened role of moral argument in international political and economic discourse.
Download or read book Africa and the Doha Development Agenda written by T. Ademola Oyejide and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African issues in the Doha Round negotiations written by Nangira Namano and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies), course: International Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: The Doha Round is the most recent round of trade negotiations amongst the 157 WTO members since the 1940s, commenced 2001. This is the first ever round since the adoption of the multilateral approach to trade system. Its envisioned objective is attain reforms in the international trading system by ensuring low trade barriers introduction and trade rules revision and/or writing. The adopted Doha Round is semi officially known as the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) work programme containing approximately 20 trade areas that are deemed to achieve the set objectives. During these talks, different states either from the core or the periphery have different interests and thus seek to have them addressed in the most viable resolutions.
Download or read book The Doha Development Agenda written by T. Ademola Oyejide and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa and the Doha Round written by Oxfam GB. and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa and the WTO Doha Round written by Michael Friis Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Policy Development and Negotiations in the Doha Round written by John McCraken and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theme Issue Africa and the WTO Doha Round written by Michael Friis Friis Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WTO Doha Round Agriculture Negotiations written by Jumoke Oduwole and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the role of developing country coalitions with an exclusive or significant African membership within the agriculture debate in the ongoing Doha Development Agenda. In 2001, the Doha Declaration commenced the current World Trade Organization (WTO) round of negotiations, highlighting the desirability of enabling economic development around the world through fairer trade rules. The Doha Round heralds an historic negotiation pertaining to special and differential treatment (S&D) for developing countries, as well as non-trade concerns, by expressly noting the need for fundamental reform in the world agricultural markets within its mandate. Focusing on food security, livelihood security and rural development, I consider the roles which four developing country coalitions - Cotton 4, G-20, G-33, and G-90 - all of which were formed in 2003, a pivotal year in the agriculture negotiations, have played so far regarding these issues in the Round. Accordingly, I consider formally submitted proposals and positions held by the coalitions on these issues. My research questions how the four selected developing country coalitions have impacted the Doha Round Agriculture negotiations in this area since their inception in 2003. The objective of the paper is to help inform policy contributions which may be applied by developing countries towards improved effectiveness in negotiating these issues during the rest of the Doha round negotiations and beyond.
Download or read book Trade Poverty Development written by Rorden Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO's Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first scheduled to conclude by January 1, 2005. Each essay explores an area of critical importance to the round; and together they stand as an important contribution to debates not only about the Doha round but also about the role of trade in the amelioration of poverty in the poorest countries.
Download or read book The WTO after Hong Kong written by Donna Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the World Trade Organization’s (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 DDA’s 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.
Download or read book Trade Policy Development and Negotiations in the Doha Round written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa and the Doha Round written by Jennifer Brant and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dreaming Out Loud written by Peter Draper and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2011, the Doha Round will be in its tenth year. Efforts continue in Geneva to conclude the negotiations but with no sign of agreement anytime soon. The talks have essentially been stuck since the last draft modalities of 2008, and no agreement seems close in the three key negotiating areas of agriculture, non-agricultural market access (NAMA) and services. Political will to conclude the talks is lacking, particularly among the major players, which include South Africa. Against this background, the broader political economy of the negotiations is analysed, focusing particularly on the likely political compromises and exchanges necessary to achieve agreement in the three separate negotiating areas. In South Africa, government, business and labour offer different perspectives of what would constitute a good development outcome for each negotiating area. Given that the NAMA-agriculture "exchange rate" is weighted in favour of developed countries, in the event of a successful Doha outcome, South Africa's interests would be best served by making more concessions in the services sector in exchange for further concessions by developed countries in the agriculture negotiations; insisting on less policy space for developing countries; as well as the preservation of the NAMA carve-out for the Southern African Customs Union.
Download or read book Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO written by Pitou van Dijck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doha Development Agenda held the promise of substantial gains for developing countries. However, the realization of these gains is far from obvious: the interests of various groups of countries differ greatly and technical complexities have hampered further progress since the very start of the negotiations. Against the background of the agenda of the present trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization and its slow progress, this enlightening book outlines the positions of the main players. Its central focus is to analyze the main effects of these positions and to find a way to complete the Doha Round so a meaningful contribution to its main objective i.e. development, is made. Key issues discussed include: the rise of the G20 group of developing countries led by Brazil, China and India the reasons for the failure of the WTO Ministerial Conference at Cancún in 2003 the prospects for the poorer developing countries - with emphasis on Africa in particular. This timely and topical book enables the reader to monitor and evaluate the ongoing negotiations in the DDA, and is a natural follow-up to the bestselling 2001 Routledge title World Trade Organization Millennium Round edited by Deutsch and Speyer.
Download or read book Can the Doha Round Benefit Africa s Industrial Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
