As ministers head to Geneva for MC12, success remains on a knife’s edge

For all the budding optimism that maybe -- just maybe -- next week’s 12th ministerial conference can deliver on the promise of several World Trade Organization negotiations, there are still several reasons to doubt the WTO can live up to the hype. MC12 is set to begin on Sunday. That gives negotiators in Geneva less than three more days to come up with a set of clean (or at least clean-ish) texts that could conceivably attract consensus among the 100-plus...