With the failure of the Doha Round, the media continue to find CGD's ongoing trade research an expert source of analysis. A flurry of recent articles cite CGD senior fellow Kimberly Ann Elliott and senior trade program associate Randall Soderquist, who lead CGD's trade research.
Trade Talks' Failure Weighs on Other Issues (Wall Street Journal - 7/31/08)
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"Efforts at global cooperation are all grappling with the same forces: a resurgence of nationalism across the globe, muscle-flexing by emerging economic giants such as China and India, and a fraying of the Cold War ties that bound many developing countries to the U.S. and Europe. "The way the Doha Round collapsed is a preview of what we're likely to see in other negotiations," said Kimberly Elliott, a senior fellow for the Center for Global Development, a Washington think tank. "Emerging markets [such as China and India] are taking a big role," she said, sometimes elbowing out even poorer nations."
The Doha Round...and Round...and Round (Economist - 7/31/08)
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"What about subsidies? Before the breakdown, America had contemplated limiting its trade-distorting subsidies to $14.5 billion. That limit was far more than it actually spent last year, but less than it spent in four of the last seven years, when farm prices were lower. So according to Kimberly Elliott of the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank in Washington, DC, the developing countries had won a modest but not meaningless concession from the world’s most powerful country. Some also believe America would have offered an ambitious cut in its cotton subsidies, which are of particular concern to West African exporters. Africa’s spokesman in Geneva was as disappointed as anyone by the breakdown of the talks.
Trade Talks Crumble in Feud Over Farm Aid (Washington Post - 7/30/08)
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"'We are heading toward the fragmentation of the global trading system into individual trading blocs -- regional and bilateral -- which offer no guarantee for the economic benefits we have seen in the post-War era,' said Randall Soderquist, senior trade program associate for the Center for Global Development."