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dc.contributor.authorDECREUX, Yvan
dc.contributor.authorFONTAGNÉ, Lionel
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-18T10:30:15Z
dc.date.available2014-12-18T10:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/33876
dc.description.abstractNegotiators have reached a deal on a limited series of issues WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali (3–6 December 2013), one of these being trade facilitation. Based on a quantitative assessment taking into account the detail of the last proposals circulated, we argue however that due to the design of the negotiation, achievements of the DDA will eventually be limited. This is due to a lack of ambition making it difficult for negotiators to compensate their own concessions. Such feebleness is induced by the way negotiations were organized – in separate groups, without much consideration for, or understanding of, how the different elements added up to more than the sum of the parts. Our quantification of these issues is performed with a dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the world economy, while liberalisation of tariffs is taken into account at the product level in order to address exceptions, flexibilities as well as the non-linear design of the formulas. A reduction in domestic support and the phasing out of export subsidies in agriculture are taken into account, as well as trade facilitation. Our conclusion is that negotiators will have to re-bundle the bits of the negotiation and shift efforts towards the neglected issue of services to make progress towards the objectives agreed on in Bali.en
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2014/61en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Governance Programme-110en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Economicsen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectDoha Development Rounden
dc.subjectComputable general equilibrium modelsen
dc.subjectTrade facilitationen
dc.subjectF13en
dc.subjectF17en
dc.subject.otherTrade, investment and international cooperation
dc.titleWhat next for the DDA? : quantifying the role of negotiation modalitiesen
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