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January 16, 2010
By Kimberly Ann Elliott
A decade ago, the multilateral development banks (MDBs) were rightly subject to harsh criticism for ignoring the role of corruption in undermining growth and development. Since then, corruption and related issues of “institutional quality” have moved to the center of the ...
January 15, 2010
Agricultural market liberalization is the linchpin for a successful conclusion to the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations because these are the most protected markets remaining in most rich countries. But the implications for developing countries, especially the poorest, are mo...
January 15, 2010
The totality of the collapse of WTO talks stunned even seasoned negotiators. "It is somewhere between intensive care and the crematorium," India's Trade and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said of the Doha Round. Kimberly Elliott, the author of a new book, Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor, a...
CGD in the News
January 14, 2010
Sir, Two centuries after Napoleon encouraged French farmers to grow sugar beets to get around a British trade embargo, sugar remains one of the most protected products in Europe. Anand Menon ("The bitter truth about European sugar", February 25) rightly points out the absurdity of giving development...