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Time: 8 hours
Level: Advanced
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 Introduction Resource- Free trade or fair trade? This unit will help you to analyse the relationship that exists between developed and developing countries under the World Trade Organization regime of Development Round negotiations....
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| | 1 Playing by the rules? Developing countries in the world trade regime
- 1.1 The WTO Resource
- The Ministerial Declaration adopted by WTO members at Doha on 14 November 2001 fails to address the most pressing needs either of the poorest countries or of the world's most vulnerable communities. This...
- 1.2 Developing countries Resource
- Which countries in the world are classified as ‘developing countries’?
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- 2 The road to Doha Resource
- The WTO was created by the eighth in a series of multilateral trade negotiations that have taken place since the signing in 1947 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Multilateral trade...
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- 3.1 Market access: expectations unfulfilled Resource
- A key objective of developing countries in trade liberalisation negotiations is access for their exports to the markets of developed countries. However, the rules have been played out by developed countries...
- 3.2 The costs of liberalisation in developing countries Resource
- In return for being granted enhanced market access by developed countries, which turned out to be somewhat illusory, developing countries agreed to open up their own markets. Indeed, for supporters of...
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- 4.1 Uniting the developing countries Resource
- Several attempts have been made to form a united front of developing countries to negotiate a better deal at the WTO. They have met with little success because there are substantial conflicts of interest...
- 4.2 Environmental and labour standards Resource
- Look back at pages 2–3. Why do trade unions in rich countries take up the cause of poor environmental and working conditions in developing countries as they did at Seattle? And why are developing country...
- 4.3 Asymmetry between labour and capital Resource
- Finally, stepping back to get a broader picture, I would like to point to the asymmetry built into the emerging institutional framework governing international economic relations, of which the WTO is one...
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- 5 Conclusion Resource
- International economic relationships are constituted in large part by international trade and investment. I have argued that the current trade regime, apparently one of voluntary adherence to negotiated...
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- Further reading Resource
- A critical view of WTO from the point of view of developing countries is Das, Bhagirath Lal (1998) WTO Agreements: Deficiencies, Imbalances and Required Changes, London, Zed Books.
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