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Operating by consensus means that the Doha "development" round has bogged down in disputes between developed and developing countries over complex, reciprocal cuts in farm subsidies and tariff barriers.
Hopes for a development round in world trade - opening up opportunities for developing countries to grow, and for reducing poverty - now seem dashed.
This round, called the "Doha Development Round", is mandated to accord particular priority to the needs of developing countries.
A happy ending to the Doha development round?
The Demise of the Development Round, Project Syndicate, August 2006.
It never was a development round, and tomorrow's world will hardly look any different from yesterday's.
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The 'development round' instigated at Doha seems particularly appropriate, if we want developing countries to benefit genuinely from world trade, which is currently more to their disadvantage.
The current multilateral round of trade negotiations is called the Doha Development Round, because it is meant specifically to help poor countries.
Almost unnoticed after years of desultory talks, the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round – initiated to redress imbalances in previous trade agreements that favored developed countries – was given a quiet burial.
Unfortunately, prior to the current economic malaise, leading trading countries, both developed and developing, have failed to come together on new multilateral initiatives in the now long-running Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization.
The needs of developing countries would be much better served by concluding the WTO Doha Development Round! Furthermore, the architects of the post-World War II trade régime sought to de-geo-politicize trade.
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