Outline the issues under discussion at Cancún - Why did talks fail?
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Daniel Colton The Doha round of World Trade Association talks were started in November 2001, and since then every step of the way has been fraught with problems. The WTO was seen to be globally failing the poor and developing countries, and the talks were designed to change rules and redistribute some of the benefits of international trade. The vast majority of the 148 member countries of the WTO agreed that the needs of the developing countries had been neglected in the previous rounds of talks in Uruguay in 1994, which had largely been dictated by lobbying from developed countries, and Seattle in 1999, a round of talks that collapsed, mainly through the revolt of developing countries. The Cancun talks were to be taken at a very slow pace owing to the hugely differing views on every subject, the scale of what was being discussed and the number of people whom...

