- Definition: The latest round of trade negotiations in the WTO.
- Also known as ‘Doha Development Agenda’.
- Launched at WTO’s Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001.
- Why Launched:
- To achieve major reform of the international trading system.
- Through lower trade barriers and revised trade rules.
- With a special focus to improve trading prospects of developing countries.
- Main agenda is centrality of ‘development’ in multilateral trading system.