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Article: DOES GLOBALIZATION WORK? Someone should find out.(efforts made at the World Trade Organization meetings in Doha, Qatar)(Brief Article)
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- January 11, 2002
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) may be a lot of things--undemocratic, beholden to rich nations, subservient to multinational companies, pick your cliche--but it isn't stupid. Still smarting from the notorious failure of the 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle, where massive protests helped derail the launch of a new round of trade negotiations, the leaders of the Geneva-based multilateral group held their 2001 meetings in Doha, the capital of the tiny Arab state of Qatar. Pleading scarce hotel space, Qatari authorities limited the number of representatives from nongovernmental organizations. Free of the heckling of anarchists and save-the-whalers, representatives from the ...
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