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With three months to go, what can the WTO deliver at MC12?
The World Trade Organization's 12th ministerial conference, set to begin at the end of November, is viewed as a critical indicator of the organization’s ongoing relevance, but with the delta variant surging and just three months left to negotiate, what can members actually deliver later this year? Based on the stated priorities of both the members and the director-general, the outcomes should be both ambitious and numerous. But that is rarely how the WTO works in practice, and MC12 likely...