Fight for Relevance (Braga)

The fight for relevance by Carlos A. Primo Braga published by IMD (6/2013). “It has become a cliché to say that the WTO is at a crossroads. The multilateral Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations are about to mark their 12th ‘birthday’ with no end in sight. Policy-makers in industrialized nations seem to be both distracted by the effects of the finalcial crisis and more intrigued by preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and plurilaterals (e.g., the International Services Agreement) than by the multilateral approach.”