Developing countries in the WTO
By: edited by Joel P. Trachtman and Chantal Thomas.
Contributors: Trachtman, Joel P.; Thomas, Chantal, 1971-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780195383614
Subjects: World Trade Organization -- Developing countries; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization); Foreign trade regulation -- Developing countries; Free trade -- Developing countries; Tariff -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries; International trade; Developing countries -- Commercial policy
Description: With contributions from some of the leading experts in international trade, law, and economics, Joel P. Trachtman and Chantal Thomas have compiled a comprehensive volume that looks at the positioning of developing countries within the WTO system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: BS Chimni, Developing countries and the GATT/WTO system : some reflections on the idea of free trade and the Doha round trade negotiations; title: Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Dysfunction, diversion, and the debate over preferences : (how) do preferential trade policies work?; title: J. Michael Finger, Trade and development: systemic lessons from WTO experience with implementation, trade facilitation, and aid for trade; title: Sylvia Ostry, Asymmetry in the Uruguay round and in the Doha round; title: Joel Trachtman, Developing countries, the Doha round, preferences and the right to regulate institutional capacity and dispute settlement (running headline); title: David M. Trubek and M. Patrick Cottrell, Robert Hudec and The theory of international economic law : the law of global space; title: Bernard Hoekman, Henrik Horn, and Petros C Mavroidis, Winners and losers in the panel stage of the WTO dispute settlement system; title: Håkan Nordström and Gregory Shaffer, Access to justice in the WTO : a case for a small claims procedure?; title: Marc L. Busch and Eric Reinhardt, With a little help from our friends? developing country complaints and third party participation; title: Chad P. Bown, MFN, and the third party economic interests of developing countries in GATT/WTO dispute settlement; title: Yong-Shik Lee, Economic development and the World Trade Organization : proposal for the agreement on development facilitation and the council for trade and development in the WTO substantive challenges (running headline); title: Tracey D. Epps and Michael J. Trebilcock, Special and differential treatment in agricultural trade : breaking the impasse; title: Daniel J Gervais, Trips 3.0 : policy calibration and innovation displacement; title: Daniel J. Gifford and Robert T. Kudrle, Trade and competition policy in the developing world: is there a role for the WTO?; title: Bernard Hoekman, The GATS and developing countries: why such limited traction?; title: Sungjoon Cho, Development by moving people: unearthing the development potential of a GATS visa; title: Frank J Garcia, The bank and the poor: justice, Bretton Woods and the problem of inequality.