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What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It - Hardcover

Book 4 of 7: What's Wrong?

Wilkinson, Rorden

 
9780745672458: What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0745672450 ISBN 13: 9780745672458
Publisher: Polity, 2014

Synopsis

We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the economic opportunities they already have and developing countries very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide ample testimony.

So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to fundamentally alter trade governance or reorient its purposes around more socially progressive and egalitarian goals are thin on the ground. Yet we eschew deeper reform at our peril. In What's Wrong with the World Trade Organization and How to Fix It Rorden Wilkinson argues that without global institutions fit for purpose, we cannot hope for the kind of fine global economic management that can put an end to major crises or promote development-for-all. Charting a different path he shows how the WTO can be transformed into an institution and a form of trade governance that fulfils its real potential and serves the needs of all.

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About the Author

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex.

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Publisher
Polity
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0745672450
ISBN 13 
9780745672458
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240