Progress in the negotiations in services trade is to be reviewed at the sixth WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in December 2005, this date being crucial for successfully concluding the Doha Development Round. However, the way to a meaningful agreement on services will not be easy. The following article explains the challenges facing the negotiations and the reasons why progress in this field is so difficult to measure.
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*John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
**Professor of International Economics, International University Bremen, Germany.
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Mildner*, S., Werner**, W. Progress or Stagnation?. Intereconomics 40, 158–168 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-005-0147-2
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