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In Nov. 2001, the WTO launched a new set of multilateral negotiations. It laid out an ambitious agenda for a broad set of new multilateral trade negotiations, which calls for a continuation of discussions on liberalizing trade in ag. and services, which began in 2000. It also provides for new talks on market access for non-ag. products, trade and the environ., trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, and other issues. This report: (1) analyzes the factors that contributed to the successful launch of new WTO negotiations, (2) analyzes the key interim deadlines for the most sensitive issues from the present time through the next ministerial conference in 2003, and (3) evaluates the most significant challenges facing the WTO in the overall negotiations.

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If ever there existed a benign-sounding organisation, it is surely the World Trade Organisation. The WTO is the successor to GATT. According to the WTO itself, its mission is "dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, the legal ground-rules for international commerce and for trade policy. The agreements have three main objectives: to help trade flow as freely as possible; to achieve further liberalisation gradually through negotiation; and to set up an impartial means of settling disputes". This book seeks to illuminate some key issues related to the WTO as well as present a detailed bibliography for future reference.

Contents: World Trade Organization, Give Developing Countries A More Favourable Deal, WTO and India, The Doha Agenda and the Uruguay Round, Is Copyright on the Wrong Track?, Add Value, Go Global, Richer or Poorer?, Challenging Traditional Economic Growth, Unemployment in the Poor and Rich Worlds, Taking a Lead in the Fight Against Poverty?, Consumption Bomb, Renewing the State, People as Hostages, Who is Responsible for Corruption in Aid?, Corruption, What was the Wrong with Structural Adjustment?, Venture Capital for Small and Medium Business, The Uruguay Round and Agricultural Reform.