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efit of the world at large. Sometimes, they might come under attack from many sides when they demonstrate conflicting viewpoints and standards. An example is that of the great deal of criticism Yahoo and Google faced over aiding the Chinese government in curbing free speech and then again over human rights’ violations when they helped the government in getting to people who violated the laws. Problems like these arise when companies fail to develop a clear set of values which guide their operations (Griller, 2007).

The concept of values is the main reason for the great deal of disagreement at the international level. The Doha Development Agenda proposed agricultural and tax reforms. However, according to Dani Rodrik’s principles, these farm reforms will largely benefit the taxpayers and consumers in the developed world, as these are the people who have for a long time, paid for agricultural subsidies and support prices. However, even though the Doha Rounds do, to some extent, talk about internal distribution of income and not just the rich become richer, there needs to be greater focus on bringing about domestic innovation in policies and structure. Dani Rodrik even questions whether this concept should or should not have been taken up by the WTO and given attention.

In many ways, Doha Rounds can be viewed as a tactic by the developed world and the WTO to achieve a moral standing. What it seeks to achieve is rather high flung. However if successful, it can raise millions out of abject poverty and promote the ideals of globalization.

Protectionism in the North has been a source of contention for people in the South and in the less developed countries. This allowed the North to produce highly cheap, subsidized crops which made it politically unfair for other countries to open up their trade to these farmers. Under this arrangement, the developed countries kept enjoying the privileges of their enormous farm subsidies while the less developed world bearing the brunt and not receiving any kind of protection or benefits.

It is rather disheartening that many clauses of Agenda met with such great failure and that is was not even able in successfully curbing protectionist bills in the US and EU even while negotiations for the Doha Development Agenda were underway. Examples of such bills include the Farm Bill in the US, and EUs Common Agricultural Policy. Under these infamous bills, prosperous corporate farmers received further patronage and once again hopes for farmers in poor countries and for the eradication of hunger and poverty in the world faced a subsequent demise. Over the years these bills have seen several rationalizations like the Farm Security Act which add further doubts to the world community’s interest in contributing to development and growth over the world. Any concessions that the developed countries were willing to make, were actually ways of furthering their own purposes and exploiting the agricultural and industrial markets of the LDCs.

An important point which has been raised by Rodik is that developed countries must themselves rise to the situation and develop their own plan for growth and prosperity which combines global best practices with institutional innovations that have been experimented with and tested and tried over the years. Just allowing easy access for the South and the LDCs to markets in the North, in itself, is a nonviable solution and