Issue
No. 603, 16-31 Oct 2015
Doha
Round must go on, say developing countries
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Large
majority of developing nations insist on continuing with DDA
Developing countries want the WTO’s Doha Round negotiations to continue
in the face of developed-country attempts to wind up the talks with
a host of development-oriented issues still unresolved.
by D. Ravi Kanth
Azevedo’s
doomsday scenarios to promote US, EU agendas
In
what one trade envoy has described as “fear-mongering”, WTO head Roberto
Azevedo
has warned of paralysis and “disengagement” by the developed countries
at the WTO if developing countries seek continuation of the Doha Round.
by
D. Ravi Kanth
Brazil
joins EU to help US on export pillar, ditching G-20
Efforts
to secure a meaningful outcome on agriculture at the Nairobi Ministerial
Conference of the WTO have run into difficulty, as the following three
articles indicate. Even as a joint Brazil-EU proposal was tabled which
was seen as letting the US off the hook with regard to export competition
commitments, developing-country proponents of a special safeguard
mechanism and a permanent solution on public food stocks have met
with stiff resistance to their own proposals.
by
D. Ravi Kanth
India
assails Brazil, EU over export competition proposal
by
D. Ravi Kanth
US
trying to scupper Nairobi outcome on food security
by
D. Ravi Kanth
Binding
outcomes for LDCs unlikely in Nairobi package
The
Nairobi Ministerial Conference is unlikely to yield binding concessions
for the least developed countries.
by
D. Ravi Kanth
MC10
must deliver strong development outcome, say CSOs
Decrying
the lack of headway in meeting core priorities of developing countries
at the WTO, civil society groups from Africa and India have voiced
the need for a strong development outcome at the Nairobi conference
and in the Doha Round.
by
Kanaga Raja
Exemption
from pharmaceutical patents agreed for LDCs
The
WTO has exempted the least developed countries from having to apply,
until 2033, patent protection on pharmaceuticals, after the US objected
to extending the exemption for as long as these countries remain LDCs.
by
Sangeeta Shashikant
Indicators
for Sustainable Development Goals: Not seeing the forest for the trees
Many
of the indicators proposed to gauge progress towards meeting the internationally
agreed Sustainable Development Goals do not adequately reflect their
respective Goals and associated targets, writes Roberto Bissio.
Opinion:
The broken promises of the Peruvian development model
Held
out by the IMF and the World Bank as an economic success story, Peru’s
embrace of the neoliberal model has wrought a severe toll on workers,
rural and indigenous communities and the environment.
by
Alice Martin Prevel
Opinion:
Is good governance good for development?
“Good
governance” is no panacea for development failure, contends Jomo
Kwame Sundaram.
