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Why world leaders must resist the false
promise of another Doha delay

By Richard Baldwin and Simon Evenett

Publisher:
VoxEU.org

Publication Date:
28 April 2011

ISBN (eBook):
978-1-907142-34-5

Background

This eBook was published one day before the 29 April 2011 meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee in Geneva.

If the Doha deadlock is to be broken this year, US and Chinese leaders must find more room for compromise by loosening their domestic political constrains. To do this, they must challenge the premise on which the deadlock is based – the view held by special interest groups that Doha is mostly about tariff cuts. These narrow special interests should not be allowed to jeopardise the world trading system and the benefits Doha would bring to all nations. This is critical; the eBook argues that if Doha fails this year, it can’t be done before 2020.

Contributors:

 Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR)

 Claude Barfield (American Enterprise Institute)

 Muhammad Chatib Basri (Special Advisor to Indonesia’s Minister of Finance)

 Peter Drysdale (Australian National University)

 Simon J. Evenett (University of St. Gallen and CEPR)

 Anne Kreuger (Johns Hopkins University)

 Philip Levy (American Enterprise Institute)

 Patrick Messerlin (Sciences Po)

 Andre Nassar (Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE))

 Carlos Perez (Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE))

 Peter Sutherland (Goldman Sachs International)

 Subidey Togan (Bilkent University)

 Alberto Trejos (INCAE Business School, Costa Rica)

 Qian Wang (Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade)

 Ernesto Zedillo (Yale University, ex-President of Mexico)

 Lei Zhang (Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade)

 

The Editors    
 
Richard Baldwin   Simon J. Evenett

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva; CEPR Policy Director, and VoxEU.org Editor-in-Chief.

 

  

Simon Evenett is Professor of Economics at St Gallen University and Co-Director of the CEPR Programme in International Trade and Regional Economics.