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Analyse the stalled progress of Doha Round of WTO negotiations over the differences between the developed and the developing countries.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global South

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The Doha Development Agenda, launched in November 2001, was meant to correct the Uruguay Round's imbalance by putting agriculture, implementation problems and special and differential treatment (S&DT) at the centre. The implied bargain was simple: the North would cut farm support, and the South would open its industrial and services markets. The exchange never closed:…

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  • The core North–South differences
  • Why the gaps proved unbridgeable
  • What survived
  • Conclusion
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