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What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It
Rorden Wilkinson
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Description for What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It
Paperback. We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPSN; KCLT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 201 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the economic opportunities they already have and developing countries very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide ample testimony.
So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to fundamentally alter trade ... Read more
We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the economic opportunities they already have and developing countries very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide ample testimony.
So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to fundamentally alter trade ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745672465
SKU
V9780745672465
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99-50
About Rorden Wilkinson
Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex.
Reviews for What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It
This thought-provoking, well-written book makes a passionate case for reforming global trade governance to do more to realise global social goods. The author asks an important question that needs more public debate: what do we need the WTO for? I hope the book will help stimulate such debate. Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute Wilkinson’s book compels us ... Read more