Rewind: Reading MC12’s results – ‘more than meets the eye’
“Get ready, tomorrow is another day post-MC12,” the World Trade Organization Director-General said at the ministerial’s end , basking in the immediate afterglow of what she called “an unprecedented package of deliverables.” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala focused on the breadth, not the depth, of the package (“you stepped up and delivered in every area we have been working on”) and left largely for others to note that each delivered result shaped something less than initially targeted. Compromise defined the order of the...