Green room politics and the WTO's crisis of representation

Kent Jones
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Kent Jones: Professor of Economics, Babson College Babson Park, MA 02457–0310

Progress in Development Studies, 2009, vol. 9, issue 4, 349-357

Abstract: World Trade Organization (WTO) Green Room meetings are small gatherings of representatives from up to 30 member countries, invited by the Director-General. They are designed to provide the basis for a consensus on critical negotiating issues that can be brought to the WTO membership as a whole. Green rooms appear to be a necessary feature of consensus building in such a large organization, but they have been criticized because they tend to favor representation from large and high-income member countries. This paper discusses the impact of the green room on the WTO decision-making process and the possibilities of reform.

Keywords: World Trade Organization; green room; international institutions; trade policy; trade negotiations; Doha Round (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340900900408

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