Three variations on 'The Future on the WTO'
Abstract
The Report on 'The Future of the WTO' had a serious challenge to face. On the one hand, it had to avoid Charybdis - the temptation of a cozy status quo, natural in such a complex institution shaped by fifty years of 'creative ambiguity' and customary practices that evolved into quasi-rules. But it also had to avoid Scylla - the temptation of a cheap idealism leading to simplistic and/or unrealistic proposals for reform, of which there were so many doing the rounds in Geneva and in some European capitals when the Consultative Board began its work (...).
Domains
Economics and Finance
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