NEW YORK – The 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization – convening this week in Yaoundé, Cameroon – comes at a time when the multilateral trading system is under unprecedented strain. But this system is far from doomed. On the contrary, one promising way to strengthen it is entirely feasible, and can be achieved at the upcoming conference: integrating the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFDA) into the WTO rulebook.

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