POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Doha Development Round, National Treatment, World Trade Organization
10 May 2019
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Week 5 1 30th of january. Doha round (the development round: most ambitious round with the largest agenda, governments were divided, the split was between the advanced and developing countries, the developing countries wanted the advanced to open their agricultural markets. Fiscal discipline (government budget surplus; debt/gdp: 2. Lower taxes, broader tax base but more people are going to pay the tax especially to middle classes (but they were still small and still growing: 4. Interest rate liberalization: 5. competitive exchange rate (free floating currencies, 6. Fdi liberalization: privatization of state enterprises, 9. Deregulation (lower barriers to entry and exit: 10. Legally secure property rights: extreme implementation of the washington consensus neoliberalism, mixed results - 1999 seattle protests at wto round results of the. Nafta: trade is concentrated in europe and the united states they therefore chose regional trade agreements. The tpp was an example of this movement toward global rule for trade.
