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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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    Whither the world trading system? Trade policy reform, the WTO and prospects for the New Round

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2003
    Where does the World Trade Organisation fit in the overall scheme of international public policy? This paper examines the structural features of the WTO, set against the extended background of the world trading system post-Uruguay Round.
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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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    Korea's trade policy regime in the development process

    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2002
    Trade policy has played a critical role in Korea’s development, but how does it need to change in response to the new multilateral trading regime? This paper addresses this question through a review and evaluation of Korea’s trade policy.
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    WTO and development: it’s all about mercantilist game

    Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2003
    Why are the developed country members of the WTO so obsessed with making the organisation development-friendly, when developing countries are not so keen? This paper questions the new emerging role of the WTO, launched at Doha and carried forward to Cancun.
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    Tariff and FDI liberalization: what to expect from China's entry into the WTO?

    Global Development Network, 2002
    What features determine the final outcome of the liberalisation process? Who gains and loses with the liberalisation of FDI?
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    The Emperor’s new clothes: why rich countries want a WTO investment agreement

    Oxfam, 2003
    This paper argues that despite EU members and other rich countries failing to fulfil their obligations from previous WTO negotiations, they are nonetheless pressuring developing countries to accept new investment rules in the next Round that they do not need and cannot afford.
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    What has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002
    The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.
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    The impact of China's accession to WTO on the exports of developing countries

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002
    This paper analyses the vulnerability of selected developing countries of China’s its entry to the WTO.General findings: In labour-intensive manufactured goods, China competes mainly with South Asian countries and a few Latin American and African countries Some Latin American and African countries may benefit from the expansion of China’s imports of foods and agricultural raw
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    China in the international segmentation of production processes

    Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2002
    The paper analyses China’s rise in international trade in the context of globalisation, in the sense of the reorganisation of production on a worldwide basis. Production processes have become internationally fragmented, as firms located in different countries take part in the production of a commodity but at different stages of the value-added chain.

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