Welcome to Trade Out of Poverty
Trade is the only proven route out of poverty. Yet the poorest countries still face
obstacles to trade with the developed world and even with each other.
TOP exists to raise awareness of how much the poorest countries could benefit from
an opening up of markets to their exports. We research into the barriers that still
exist, quantify the damage they do and identify successful ways of removing them.
News
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Jan 26, 2012
Cameron urges EU to look beyond Doha
Prime Minister David Cameron called the drive to finish the Doha round of world trade talks a failure and said on Thursday the European Union should instead negotiate free trade deals with the United States and Africa.
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Dec 21, 2011
No end in sight for Doha Round of talks
Stating that he did not see an end to the decade-old Doha Round of negotiations for a global trade deal, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar on Tuesday said he did not see the deal materialising before 2014.
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Dec 19, 2011
WTO ends meeting with no move forward on Doha
The World Trade Organization closed its biennial ministerial conference on Saturday with its chairman citing an improved atmosphere in the 153-member club but no concrete moves forward on the Doha round of world trade talks.
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Dec 12, 2011
Trade chiefs to avoid negotiation on Doha round at WTO ministerial
Members of the 153-nation World Trade Organization will welcome Russia into the fold and discuss ways to open up government procurement contracts to foreign competition at a meeting in Geneva next week, but the 10-year-old Doha round of commerce liberalization won’t be a topic for negotiation.
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