{"id":801,"date":"2011-04-28T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-05-12T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T20:58:08","slug":"the-doha-round%e2%80%99s-premature-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-doha-round%e2%80%99s-premature-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doha Round\u2019s Premature Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/contributor\/1836\" target=\"_blank\">Bhagwati, Jagdish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Doha Round, the first multilateral trade negotiation conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, is at a critical stage. Now in their 10th year, with much negotiated, the talks need a final political nudge, lest Doha \u2013 and hence the WTO \u2013 disappear from the world\u2019s radar screen.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the danger is already real: when I was in Geneva a year ago and staying at the upscale Mandarin Oriental, I asked the concierge how far away the WTO was. He looked at me and asked: \u201cIs the World Trade Organization a travel agency?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:<\/strong> Project Syndicate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/bhagwati12\/English\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhagwati, Jagdish. The Doha Round, the first multilateral trade negotiation conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, is at a critical stage. Now in their 10th year, with much negotiated, the talks need a final political nudge, lest Doha \u2013 and hence the WTO \u2013 disappear from the world\u2019s radar screen. Indeed, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}