Brings together members of the former WTO Director General's advisory group which was formed to provide him with expert advice before and after the Doha Ministerial Conference in 2001. Nine experts explore issues which are pertinent to the ongoing progress in trade negotiations in 2003/4, together with an introduction. Notes on contributors
Introduction
1. Trade and sustainable development in the WTO after Doha Konrad Von Moltke
2. WTO - the institutional contradictions LeRoy Trotman
3. China's entry into the WTO and its impact on the global economic system Koichi Hamada
4. Key challenges facing the WTO Robert E Baldwin
5. Development dimensions in multilateral trade negotiations T. Ademola Oyejide
6. External transparency: the policy process at the national level of the two level game Sylvia Ostry
7. Trading for development: how to assist poor countries Jagdish Bhagwati
8. Controlling corruption: a key to development-orientated trade Peter Eigen
9. The impact of EC enlargement on WTO A. Messerlin
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