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WTO debilitation adds to signs of end of globalisation

The WTO looks set to lose its power to rule on trade disputes this week. This will not immediately transform the economic or policy outlook since the body had been effectively side-lined already. But the failure of world leaders to get it back on track is a symptom of resistance to policy coordination which will shape the world economy in years to come.

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