Development at the WTOSeeking to open paths for reconsidering the trade and development relationship at the WTO, this book takes into account both the heritage of the trade regime and its present dynamics. It argues that the institutional processes for creating and implementing trade rules at the WTO and the actual regulatory outcomes are inseparable. A consideration of the WTO's development dimension must examine both jointly. It shows that the shortcomings of the Doha Development Round are in part due to a failure to assess trade rules as part of the legal processes and institutions that produced them. This book devotes significant analysis to the systemic impact of the WTO as an institution on developing and least developed members. From a pragmatic perspective, it provides a coherent and systematic analysis of the legal meaning, the implementation, and the adjudication of special and differential treatment rules for developing members. It then evaluates the different regulatory approaches to trade and development from a more theoretical perspective. The book finishes by presenting a range of proposals for a better balance between trade liberalization and the development needs of many WTO members. |
Contents
The Contribution of International Organizations to Development PolicyMaking | |
A shift in the allocation of the burden of proof | |
Objective? | |
Reconsidering Special and Differential Treatment in the Global Context | |
1 International adjudicators treatment of development arguments | |
What Impact on Developing Members? | |
1 Allocation of Chairs between developed and developing countries in absolute numbers | |
RETHINKING THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT RELATIONSHIP AT THE | |
The Trade and Development Relationship during the GATT Years and the Genesis | |
1 Comparison of the ITO Charter and GATT 1947 provisions | |
2 Level of participation in the Tokyo Codes at the time of the Uruguay Round | |
Developing Member and LeastDeveloped Country Status at the GATT | |
Changing Dynamics in Developing | |
A Legal Analysis | |
Invoking Development in Dispute Settlement | |
1 WTO legal cover of East Asian RTAs | |
Some Proposals | |
1 Number of new GATTWTO members per year 19472010 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ACP countries adjudication African agenda agricultural Antidumping Appellate Body Report approach Arbitrator Argentina argued Article XVIII beneficiaries bilateral Brazil Chapter commitments Committee complainant concessions contracting parties Cotton Decision decision-making derogations developing country Members developing country participation developing members development arguments differential treatment Doha Round domestic EC-Tariff Preferences Economic Partnership Agreement Ecuador effect Enabling Clause exports framework GATT GATT Article impact implementation important India industrial institutional interests international law interpretation investment issues LDCs limited litigation mandate Marrakesh Marrakesh Agreement measures Ministerial Meeting non-reciprocity normative objective obligations organizations Panel Report particular percent policies political procedures proposals regarding RTAs rules SCM Agreement SDT provisions sector single undertaking special and differential specific subsidies substantive tariff technical assistance Tokyo Round trade agreements trade and development trade liberalization trade negotiations trade preferences treaty UNCTAD United Uruguay Round World Bank WTO agreements WTO members WTO’s