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Searching with a thematic focus on WTO, Trade Policy, WTO SDT

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  Expanding national policy space for development: why the Multilateral Trading System must change

  South Centre, 2005

  The paper demonstrates how developing countries’ national policy space is affected by agreements comprising the Multilateral Trading System (MTS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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  Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper starts from the premise that preferential trade agreements slow down multilateral trade liberalisation. To avoid this stumbling block effect the authors suggest replacing unilateral preferences by a fixed import subsidy. They argue that this scheme would reduce the drag of preferences on multilateral liberalisation.
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  Special and differential treatment: a mechanism to promote development?

  Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper argues that Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) that was emphasised in the Doha round of WTO negotiations does not necessarily promote development.
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  Special and differential treatment in the WTO agricultural negotiations

  Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

  This paper examines the case for special and differential (S&D) treatment for developing countries within the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the particular instruments or exemptions which such a treatment should contain.It highlights that experience to date with the implementation of the AoA has revealed a number of major shortcomings:the huge imbalance in the amount of trade-di
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  Trips with everything? Intellectual property and the farming world

  Food Ethics Council, 2002

  This report briefly outlines some general issues arising in intellectual property (IP), in addition to discussing the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization.
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  Breaking the WTO logjam: towards enforceable special and differential treatment

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Should developing countries adopt the same trade rules as developed states – or should they be given Special and Differential Treatment (SDT)? Are existing SDT mechanisms out of synchronisation with emerging rules of trade policy? How can researchers assist the incorporation of achievable SDT regimes within the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) rule-making process?
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  The WTO promotes trade strongly, but unevenly

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  The paper argues that GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade, but finds that the impact has been uneven between developing and developed countries, between new and old developing country members and between sectors:GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports, but the same has not been true for developing country member
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  Global economic prospects 2004: realising the development promise of the Doha agenda

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2003

  This report presents a detailed overview of the world economy, and the near-term outlook. It also analyses central elements of the Doha Agenda that are important to developing countries.The overview of the world economy projects anaemic growth of 1.5 percent in 2003 in the industrialised world. It foresees better performance next year, as industrial countries' growth rises to 2.5 percent.
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  From Doha to Cancun: special and differential treatment

  Globalisation Team, Institute of Development Studies, UK, 2003

  This paper addresses the issue of special and differential treatment (SDT), weighing up the arguments over whether or not there should be general provisions for developing countries, or whether there should be more focussed analysis of the desirability of specific rules.
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  Recognising reality: balancing precision and flexibility in WTO rules

  Globalisation Team, Institute of Development Studies, UK, 2003

  This paper addresses the issue of ‘special and differential treatment'. The paper argues that the term SDT is often misconstrued as a two-track system in which developing countries are allowed to distort their economies, to their own and others' detriment, to a greater extent than are other WTO members.

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