What next for poor countries fighting to trade in an unfair world? | Kevin Watkins
by Kevin Watkins from on (#YEGM)
The Doha round's promise of better market access for the poorest nations, cuts in farm subsidies and fairer trade rules has come to nothing
The setting was a lakeside in Geneva and the cast was as international as it gets, but the Doha round of world trade talks was scripted straight out of EastEnders, the UK's long-running television soap opera: an endless recycling of worn-out story lines, interminable plots, and theatrical moments of hope punctured by comically predictable tragic outcomes.
In case you missed the episode last week, the main character was bumped off in the corridors of a Nairobi conference centre by European and American trade diplomats.
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