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Regulatory standards in the WTO: comparing intellectual property rights with competition policy, environmental protection, and core labor standards
Institute for International Economics, USA, 2000
Paper addresses the question of whether regulatory and process standards, including competition policy, environmental standards, and worker rights, should be placed onto the WTO agenda. Because they evidently no longer may be excluded on the grounds of the inability of the trading system to discipline process standards, the argument must proceed on other grounds.
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The WTO agenda and the developing countries
Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2000
The paper argues that, in the light of reforms since the mid-1980s, the developing countries have an interest in a relatively broad-based agenda.
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WTO: Understanding the Development Angle [Trade and Development Background Briefings]
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
Series of 10 short background papers, each on a different aspect of the WTO agenda and describing how developing countries may be affected by different outcomes, and what preparations they need to make to participate effectively. Developing countries have joined the WTO in large numbers, in the expectation that its objectives of rule-based liberal trade will foster development.