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In December 2005, the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference took place in Hong Kong. No agreement was reached and April 30 2006 became the new deadline for concluding the trade talks. This deadline was abandoned by Pascal Lamy, the director general of the WTO, as the organisation's members failed once again to progress in world trade talks.

Now, the collapse of the Doha Development Round on 24 July 2006, represents a dramatic setback to the process of building a more prosperous global market and a more peaceful world. Where do we go from here?

Doha: The Collapse is a selection of recent articles, working papers and reports on these final stages of the Doha Round of world trade negotiations.

Archives - "On the road to Hong Kong" section and "On the road to Cancun" section

-Trade Barriers cost EU billions in lost business in China, IHT, 19 February 2007
- The Doha Development Round: Failure is not an option
, International Business Statement on the Doha Development Agenda, 15 January 2007
- Presidents of BDI and MEDEF urge policymakers to conclude WTO negotiations
, BDI, MEDEF, January 2007

- The Doha Debacle, Peter Sutherland, Wall Street Journal, August 2 2006
- The Collapse of the Doha Round - Broader Implications, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, The Evian Group, July 2006
- An Initiative to Strengthen the WTO, The Tasman Transparency Group, July 2006
- The Demise of the Development Round, Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, 2006
- What now, trade ministers?
, Pascal Lamy, IHT, July 27 2006
- Shrugging Off Trade Promises, Bruce Stokes, New York Times, July 27 2006
- Collapse of global trade talks, Tom Wright, IHT, July 26 2006
- Free trade's best defence is truth, Financial Times, July 25 2006
- The failure of Doha, Philip Bowring, IHT, 25 July 2006
- Doha failure "would make poverty fight more difficult", William Frances, FT, 4 July 2006
- Trading Up, Susan Sechler and Ann Tutwiler, New York Times, 26 June 2006
- Balance of Payments - Doha In The Red Zone, Bruce Stokes, National Journal, 08 June 2006
- Can the Doha Round Be Salvaged?, Ernesto Zedillo, YaleGlobal, 9 May 2006
- Why Globalization Has Stalled, Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post, 24 April 2006
- Letter from the American Business Coalition for Doha, American Business Coalition for Doha (ABCDoha), 3 May 2006
- About That Free Trade ..., The New York Times, 15 May 2006
- The real cost of a failure in Doha, FT, 15 May 2006
- Managing Globalization: An unlevel playing field within the WTO, Daniel Altman, IHT, 2 May 2006
- The EU and the Doha Dead End, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, The Globalist, 1 May 2006
- Smug Doha trade negotiators get nowhere and just stir despair, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Financial Times, 29 April 2006
- WTO should focus on non-tariff issues, Hans Ekdahl, Financial Times, 5 April 2006
- Memo to Pascal Lamy, Bruce Stokes, Foreign Policy, March/April 2006
- A Floundering WTO: Part I, Edward Gresser, Yale Global Online, 21 March 2006
- A Floundering WTO: Part II, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Yale Global Online, 23 March 2006
- Doha's Winners and Losers, Bruce Stokes, National Journal, 11 March 2006
- Deconstructing France at the WTO, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Evian Group Policy Brief, February 2006
- Can the Doha Drift be Stopped? Brainstorming preliminary report and position paper, The Evian Group, February 2006

Articles on the opportunities of, as well as the threats to globalisation and the multi-lateral trading system


- Free Trade Pacts Are Bad For Business, Oxford Analytica, 24 March 2006
- Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific: A Risky Game Being Played at the Wrong Time, Christopher M. Dent, Evian Group Policy Brief, April 2006
- Markets and Institutions: How to manage the governance gap at the WTO, Richard A. Higgott, Fabrice Lehmann, and Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Garnet Policy Brief, 1 May 2006

 
 
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