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Africa: Time to Pull Plug on the Doha Development Round?
SAIIA, 17 December 2015
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is holding its 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. While a deal promoting the interests of developed countries, known as the Doha… Read more »
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Africa: Developing Countries Call for Doha-Round Trade Deal
Nation, 16 December 2015
World Trade Organisation (WTO) members stuck to their guns at the opening of the tenth ministerial meeting as opposing camps emerged on the first day of the Nairobi talks. Read more »
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Africa: IT Tariffs Cut in Biggest WTO Deal in 19 Years
East African, 16 December 2015
Nairobi talks have finally gotten a breakthrough on the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) signed on Wednesday by 79 World Trade Organisation (WTO) members. Read more »
Time to Pull Plug on the Doha Development Round?
At its inception, member states hoped that the World Trade Organization's Doha Round would promote the interests of developing countries primarily through eliminating trade barriers and farming subsidies in developed markets, write Azwimphelele Langalanga and Cyril Prinsloo for the South African Institute for International Affairs.
InFocus
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is attending the Tenth Ministerial Conference of the body, has welcomed the move as a "great milestone" for her country. Read more »
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The hosting of 10th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Africa, could not have come at a better time. Expectations are high that this meeting will provide ... Read more »
