The BRICS at the WTO Doha
Development Round: Comparing crisis-born agendas and
strategies
Key Staff Involved
Pablo
Heidrich
Research
Period
May
2009
-
September 2009
Output
3
working papers, 1 panel discussion at the World Trade
Organization 2009 Public Forum, 1 briefing note.
The current global
economic crisis has
greatly affected the
BRICS countries
(acronym referring
to the developing
economies of Brazil,
Russia, India, and
China) and may cause
them to modify their
agendas for the Doha
Development Round.
Given their
commitment at the
G-20 meetings to
contribute to the
successful closing
of multilateral
trade negotiations
and their increasing
relevance in the
global economy, the
BRICS involvement is
a key component
defining how the
global trading
system will cope
with this crisis and
contribute to its
resolution.
This analysis
provides suggestions
as to what these
large trading
economies are likely
to consider
essential,
negotiable and
non-relevant for
this Round to close
successfully. It is
grounded on three
variables: their
leadership capacity
to coordinate with
other countries at
the negotiations,
their policy
learning from
previous crises
(such as the ones
affecting their
Uruguay Round
positions in the
early 1990s or their
WTO accession in the
midst of the Asian
Crisis), and how
their development
strategies are being
affected by the
current crisis. All
these elements are
in turn informed by
internal political
processes and the
array of domestic
interests inside
each of these three
countries.
China and the
Doha Development
Agenda by Chin Leng Lim
(University of Hong
Kong) and JiangYu
Wang (National
University of
Singapore)
Working Paper
WTO Forum
Presentation
India: Strategies
at the Doha
Development Agenda -
July and Beyond by Rajiv
Kumar and Swapna
Nair (Indian Council
for Research on
International
Economic Relations)
Working Paper
WTO Forum
Presentation
Project Structure
and Rationale by Pablo Heidrich
(The North-South
Institute)
WTO Forum
Presentation
