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  "title": "Group of Twenty - Reinvigorating Trade to Support Growth: A Path Forward",
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  "summary": "Reinvigorating trade integration should be a key component of the global policy agenda to boost growth. Trade policy’s new frontiers such as services, regulatory cooperation, and trade and investment complementarities carry high potential to bolster efficiency and productivity.",
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      "content": "- Reinvigorating trade integration should be a key component of the global policy agenda to boost growth.\n- Trade policy’s new frontiers include:\n  - services\n  - regulatory cooperation\n  - trade and investment complementarities\n- These new frontiers carry high potential to bolster efficiency and productivity.\n- Governments differ on whether to continue the WTO Doha Round, creating an urgent need to identify a path for the global trading system in today’s more complex trade policy landscape.\n- A long interregnum without a path forward would risk fragmenting the global trade system and undermining its governance."
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      "content": "- Tackling trade policy issues important to the global economy may require flexible approaches to multilateral negotiations, including modalities such as plurilaterals.\n- Enhanced coherence efforts are needed to ensure that regional trade agreements and multilateralism coexist productively."
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    "Trade policy’s new frontiers include:",
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    "Governments differ on whether to continue the WTO Doha Round, creating an urgent need to identify a path for the global trading system in today’s more complex trade policy landscape.",
    "A long interregnum without a path forward would risk fragmenting the global trade system and undermining its governance.",
    "Tackling trade policy issues important to the global economy may require flexible approaches to multilateral negotiations, including modalities such as plurilaterals.",
    "Enhanced coherence efforts are needed to ensure that regional trade agreements and multilateralism coexist productively.",
    "Publication date: May 13, 2016",
    "The IMF eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats.",
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