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The paper focuses on the Doha Round impasse that continues to erode the assurance that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is able and capable of carrying out its core mandate of regulating international trade. The author argues that key to apparent failure of the Doha Development Agenda is the failure of the decision-making process at the WTO and emphasizes the need for broad institutional reforms. In this context, the paper explores the principles of consensus as well as the Single Undertaking in the WTO, and investigates whether these principles are still applicable in today’s WTO.