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Identify and evaluate the reasons for deadlock in the WTO negotiations on fisheries between the developing and developed countries.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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Fisheries subsidies are a textbook tragedy of the commons (Garrett Hardin, 1968): each state subsidises its fleet; the shared stock collapses. The FAO finds more than a third of assessed stocks overfished. U. Rashid Sumaila and colleagues (2019) put global subsidies near $35 billion a year, over $22 billion of it capacity-enhancing, mostly from China,…

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  • What is agreed and what is stuck
  • Reasons for the deadlock
  • Evaluation
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