Globalization means that today, more than ever before, growth in developing countries and the reduction of poverty depend on world trade and a well functioning trading system. This volume reviews developing countries trade policies and institutions, and the challenges they face in the World Trade Organization - where the rules that govern the international trading system are set.
Globalization means that today, more than ever before, growth in developing countries and the reduction of poverty depend on world trade and a well functioning trading system. This volume reviews developing countries trade policies and institutions, and the challenges they face in the World Trade Organization - where the rules that govern the international trading system are set.
CONSTANTINE MICHALOPOULOS, for many years a senior official of the World Bank, has worked on operations and research of trade policies of developing countries and economies in transition. In 1997-99 he was Special Economic Advisor at the WTO where he developed materials for this book as well as a better appreciation of the challenges faced by developing countries in the world trading system. He is author of Financing Needs of Developing Countries: Proposals for International Action, and co-editor of Trade in the New Independent State with D.Tarr, and Aid and Development with A.O.Krueger and V.Ruttain.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Tables Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Developing Countries in World Trade Trends in Developing Country Trade, 1980-1999 Trade and Development in the GATT and WTO Developing Country Policies Developing Country Trade Related Institutions Developed Country Policies: The International Environment The TRIPS Agreement and Developing Countries Developing Country Participation in the WTO WTO Accession Issues Towards a Development Round Policy Coherence Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix A: Country Groupings Appendix B: Methodology in Estimating Frequency Ratios References Index
List of Tables Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Developing Countries in World Trade Trends in Developing Country Trade, 1980-1999 Trade and Development in the GATT and WTO Developing Country Policies Developing Country Trade Related Institutions Developed Country Policies: The International Environment The TRIPS Agreement and Developing Countries Developing Country Participation in the WTO WTO Accession Issues Towards a Development Round Policy Coherence Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix A: Country Groupings Appendix B: Methodology in Estimating Frequency Ratios References Index
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'...a balanced and informative account of the relationship between developing countries and the current international trade regime...' - Foreign Affairs
'...well-written volume...Recommended...' - I. Walter, Choice
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