No. 81 - 'Developing countries and the prospect of finalizing Doha Development Round'

Institute for Western Affairs' Bulletin (No. 81/2012):  Małgorzata Grącik-Zajaczkowski   - 'Developing countries and the prospect of finalizing Doha Development Round'

Highly-developed countries, including the members of the European Union and the United States, are not capable of forcing their position single-handedly.  The increasingly better organization and institutionalization of treaties and agreements among developing countries, especially the newly emerging economies (G-20), force the OECD countries to take their position into consideration and at the same time to look for a solution that would have an impact on the final results of negotiations. The approach is consistent with the Doha Declaration, which defines negotiations as a single undertaking. It means that arriving at detailed agreements in specific areas, the WTO members ought to take into account the whole negotiation process and the impact of a single agreement on the final result of negotiations.