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Speech by Director-General Supachai on 19 January 2003 on The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) Advanced Training Programme for Arab Senior Government Officials

The challenge facing developing countries is to restore economic growth and create jobs, while maintaining macroeconomic stability, persevering with domestic economic reforms, and ensuring that trade is mainstreamed or integrated into economic policies and strategies for poverty reduction. The real benefits of trade liberalization are mainly realized if trade is placed firmly within the context of a domestic reform agenda. I need not underscore the simple but powerful truth that trade reform and liberalization cannot stand-alone. It must be supported by appropriate domestic policies for the full benefits to be realized

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