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The stalemate in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations
The complex negotiations of the so-called Doha Development Agenda (DDA) seem to have definitively ground to halt at the end of July. Not that progress in the negotiations had ever been particularly fast since 2 November 2001, when they were launched in the Qatar capital. It can hardly be claimed that optimism had ever prevailed…
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Relating to India: the different approaches of the United States and the European Union
In an earlier issue of this magazine we analysed the powerful rise of China and India and the consequences for international scenarios in the coming decades. The extent of this deep change is revealed by the fact that for the first time since the industrial revolution the greatest growth in the world economy will not…
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India: analysis of an emerging power
From 28 April to 10 May India will hold elections to vote for its fourteenth Parliament (Lok Sabha) since 1947. The country usually receives very little media coverage in Europe, and information about India is generally limited to a few stereotypes. On one hand, there are images of poverty and dramatic social injustice, and on…
