Finance Development March 2005

Download or read book Finance & Development, March 2005 written by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper highlights that the current round of trade talks under the auspices of the World Trade Organization aims at better integrating developing countries—especially the small and poor ones—into the global trading system. For that reason, it was named the Doha Development Agenda when it was launched in late 2001. However, more than three years on, little progress has been made. It took a late July 2004 accord outlining “negotiating frameworks” in agriculture and industrial products just to keep the talks afloat.