The Doha Round impasse: A graphical account

Simon Evenett

The Review of International Organizations, 2014, vol. 9, issue 2, 143-162

Abstract: Several factors potentially responsible for the failure to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations are analyzed. A two-stage negotiation and ratification game between the “North” (industrialized countries) and the “South” (developing countries) is employed and collapses into a single diagram. The choice of negotiating agenda, principles, and currency of the Doha Round interact with domestic political factors in leading WTO members, the fast growth of exports prior to 2007, and pervasive unilateral trade reform to eliminate the “landing zone” for this particular multilateral negotiation. Recent emphasis on differences between developing countries and on Chinese WTO accession as independent causes of the impasse seems misplaced. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: WTO; Doha Round; Deadlock; Impasse; Two-level games; F02; F13; F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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