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If you don't actually want to liberalise, why not just get out of the WTO?
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September 1, 2008
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International trade
A s the Doha Round stalls yet again, it is time for members of the World Trade Organisation to put up, or shut up. Since the inception of the Doha Round, India has been a reticent negotiating party. If developing countries don't want to liberalise they should get out of the WTO.
At the July mini-Ministerial meeting in Geneva, negotiators and observers were sceptical about a breakthrough. The round had seen eight meetings in seven years and outcomes were ever-elusive.
Yet progress was being made. Shortly before the collapse the US, EU and Brazil agreed to a compromise package to reduce developed country agriculture subsidies for reduced developing country industrial ...
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