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The WTO Doha Development Agenda

Defining the Scope of Postal Service Liberalization

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Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector

Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series ((TREP,volume 46))

Abstract

In November 2001, Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the Doha Ministerial Declaration, which establishes an ambitious work program for negotiations on further liberalization on a range of issues, including, inter alia, trade in goods, intellectual property rights, and services. The negotiations, which must be completed as a “single undertaking” by the end of January 2005, are intended to create a vast array of new commitments covering multiple sectors. Negotiations on liberalization of services, which were mandated to begin in 2000 by the terms of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), have now been subsumed within the Doha Declaration’s umbrella.

The views represented are solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of the United States Postal Service.

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    Anthony Alverno & Allison Levy

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  1. Center for Research in Regulated Industries Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Michael A. Crew

  2. Risk Management and Decision Process Center The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Paul R. Kleindorfer

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Alverno, A., Levy, A. (2003). The WTO Doha Development Agenda. In: Crew, M.A., Kleindorfer, P.R. (eds) Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series, vol 46. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8915-4_10

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