4 Conclusion
64. The rationale behind the changes to the UK's
handling of trade policy is laudable. Trade and development policy
must work in concert to lift the poor out of poverty. But lessons
will need to be learnt from the confusion of the months following
the announcement of the changes. The process for implementing
the changes and the implications of them should be set out right
at the start, rather than piecemeal and over a period of months.
65. Confusion must now give way to focused and serious
work on priority dossiers such as the World Trade Organisation
Doha Round, EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements, and demonstrating
UK compliance with the OECD Anti-bribery Convention. We will be
looking for real progress in these dossiers over coming months
as a means of measuring the effectiveness of the changes announced
in June 2007.
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