Developing Countries and the WTO
A Pro-Active Agenda
World Economy Special Issues
1. Auflage April 2001
336 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This volume brings together a selection of papers that were
prepared as background analyses for a collaborative research
capacity-building project, focusing on the WTO negotiating agenda.
* * Contributors review the results of the Uruguay Round
negotiations, discuss developing country concerns relating to the
operation of the WTO and assess implementation of WTO
agreements.
* * Contributors quantify the potential benefits of further global
liberalization of access to markets for industrial and agricultural
products, and assess the relative merits of expanding multilateral
disciplines into new areas such as investment, competition, and
labor and environmental policies.
2. Two Principles for the Next Round.
3. Liberalising Agriculture and Manufacturers.
4. Developing Countries in the New Round of GATS.
5. Improving Africa's Participation in the WTO.
6. Implementation of Uruguay Round Commitments.
7. WTO Dispute Settlement: 8. Industrial Policy and the WTO.
9. Subsidiarity and the Governance Challenges.
10. Technical Regulations and Customs Procedures.
11. Competition and Policy in Developing Countries.
12. Maximising the Benefits of Trade Policy Review.
13. From TRIM's to a WTO Agreement on Investment?.
14. Bringing Discipline to Agriculural Policy via the WTO.
Trade group in the Development Research Group of the World Bank.
Will Martin is the Lead Economist in the World
Bank's Development Economics Research Group (DECRG).