A development analysis of the WTO Hong Kong Declaration
6 February, 2006
By Tim Rice and Mustafa Talpur, ActionAid International
This assessment offers a development analysis of the outcome of the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration; paragraph numbers refer to those in the final Ministerial Declaration.3
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
The trade deal agreed at the Hong Kong Ministerial has been the culmination of four years of negotiations. In those four years, ActionAid International believes that the talks have not delivered one substantive outcome in terms of poverty reduction, promoting development, or protecting health and the environment. Even the superficial attempts by rich nations to push development issues as part of a package of development measures