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Green room politics and the WTO's crisis of representation

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  • Kent Jones

    (Professor of Economics, Babson College Babson Park, MA 02457–0310)

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World Trade Organization (WTO) Green Room meetings are small gatherings of representatives from up to 30 member countries, invited by the Director-General. They are designed to provide the basis for a consensus on critical negotiating issues that can be brought to the WTO membership as a whole. Green rooms appear to be a necessary feature of consensus building in such a large organization, but they have been criticized because they tend to favor representation from large and high-income member countries. This paper discusses the impact of the green room on the WTO decision-making process and the possibilities of reform.

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  • Kent Jones, 2009. "Green room politics and the WTO's crisis of representation," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 9(4), pages 349-357, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:9:y:2009:i:4:p:349-357
    DOI: 10.1177/146499340900900408
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