GDAE on the WTO's Doha Round

Publications | Researcher Bios | Press Coverage

GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program has been actively involved in analyzing the ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations under the so-called Doha Development Round.   Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, from GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program, and Research Director Frank Ackerman have written extensively on the topic, in addition to presenting their research to key policymakers and NGOs. Key publications on the Doha Round include: 

Recent Publications 

Doha Round Projections Analysis:

"Relevance of ‘Policy Space’ for Development: Implications for Multilateral Trade Negotiations," by Nagesh Kumar and Kevin P. Gallagher, RIS Discussion Paper #120, March 2007.

"The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space—How Big is the Bite?" by Alisa DiCaprio and Kevin P. Gallagher, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Volume 7, no. 5, October 2006.
A policy brief based on this article appeared as "Measuring the Cost of Lost Policy Space at the WTO," Americas Program, International Relations Center, March 20, 2007.
This document was also published in Spanish and Korean.

Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs, Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher, Zed Books, 2005.  

"Brazil: Trading Away Industrial Development?" Kevin P. Gallagher, IRC Americas Program Policy Report, December 13, 2005

"Policy Space for Development in the WTO and Beyond: The Case of Intellectual Property Rights," Ken Shadlen, GDAE Working Paper No. 05-06, November 2005.

"Identifying the Real Winners from U.S. Agricultural Policies," Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper No. 05-07, December, 2005.

"Preserving Policy Space for Sustainable Development: The Subsidies Agreement at the WTO," Francisco Aguayo Ayala and Kevin P. Gallagher, Trade Knowledge Network/IISD, December 2005. 

"Revaluing Peasant Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade Markets in Mexico," by Muriel Calo and Timothy A. Wise, October 2005.

Other Relevant Publications

International Investment for Sustainable Development, Lyuba Zarsky, editor, Earthscan, 2004.

Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond, Kevin P. Gallagher, Stanford University Press, 2004.

Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico, Timothy A. Wise, Hilda Salazar, and Laura Carlsen (eds.), Kumarian Press and Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2003. (Published in Spanish as Enfrentando la Globalizacion: Respuestas Sociales a la Integracion Economica de Mexico, Laura Carlsen, Tim Wise, and Hilda Salazar, eds., Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2003.)

Earthscan Reader on International Trade and Sustainable Development, Kevin P. Gallagher and Jacob Werksman (eds.), Earthscan Publications, 2002.

Globalization and the Environment: Lessons from the Americas, by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, July 2004, Heinrich Boll Foundation.

"The Paradox of Agricultural Subsidies: Measurement Issues, Agricultural Dumping, and Policy Reform" by Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper 04-02, May 2004.  This paper is summarized in: "Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Agricultural Subsidies, Dumping, and Policy Reform," Bridges Trade Monthly, May 2004. (Also available in Spanish, in Puentes entre el comercio y el desarrollo sostenible.)

"The Environmental Costs of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Mexico-U.S. Maize Trade Under NAFTA," Alejandro Nadal and Timothy A. Wise. Working Group Discussion Paper DP04, June 2004.

“Fair Trade in Tropical Crops is Possible: International Commodity Agreements Revisited,” by Niek Koning, Muriel Calo, and Roel Jongeneel. North-South Centre Discussion Paper No. 3, Wangeningen University, June 2004.

 

Researcher Biographical Information:

Kevin P. Gallagher is Senior Researcher for the institute's Research and Policy Program, and an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University. His current research focuses on the economics and politics of economic integration in Latin America and at the WTO. He is the author of Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. He is also the editor of Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO, and co-editor of International Trade and Sustainable Development (with Jacob Werksman). He has presented his work at the WTO, World Bank, OECD, ECLAC, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and at other international conferences on trade and investment policy, economic development, and the environment. Gallagher holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy and a M.A. in International Environmental Policy from Tufts.

Timothy A. Wise is Deputy Director and Researcher with the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. He is the former executive director of Grassroots International, a Boston-based international aid organization, and co-author of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico and A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions. He has written extensively on agriculture, trade, and the environment.  He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts' Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.

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