Economic Multilateralism in Peril

Manmohan Agarwal

International Studies, 2021, vol. 58, issue 4, 425-441

Abstract: The Doha Round of multilateral negotiations is at a stalemate. The aid situation is changing as many countries are graduating from the soft loan arm of the World Bank Group. Developing countries built up their foreign exchange reserves to avoid borrowing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading the IMF to retrench. This article explores the evolution of multilateralism from, essentially, its political roots to the economic area after the First World War (FWW), though in a limited way, and more fully after the Second World War (SWW). We then discuss how the workings of these economic multilateral institutions resulted in the current situation, where they risk becoming irrelevant. Finally, the article discusses the possible role of theG20 in the revival of multilateralism and, in particular, the role that developing countries might play in the revival.

Keywords: Economics and development studies; economic relations; diplomacy; geopolitics; hegemony; international politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/00208817211056741

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