The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference: A victory for the WTO but what next?

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)’s 9th Ministerial Conference (MC9) took place in Bali, Indonesia from 3rd to 7th December 2013. Widely believed to be a decisive moment both for the future of the WTO and for the flailing Doha Development Agenda, the fraught five-day long negotiations were to culminate in the first global trade deal to be agreed in the eighteen year history of the WTO, resulting in what will be an estimated $1 trillion injection into the global economy.