Five hypotheses concerning the fate of the Singapore issues in the Doha Round
提出并评估了关于WTO成员如何处理新加坡议题的五个假说，并讨论了这些评估对未来类似提案在多边贸易领域成功可能性的启示。
At the Cancún Ministerial Conference, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) disagreed on whether to launch negotiations on multilateral disciplines concerning the four areas of government policy collectively known as the ‘Singapore issues’. This amounted to a decision not to expand the WTO's boundaries along these dimensions. In this paper, five hypotheses concerning the treatment of the Singapore issues by the WTO's membership are described and assessed. The implications of this assessment for the likelihood that, at some future date, similar proposals can be successfully advanced in the multilateral trade arena are also discussed.