scholarly journals Competition Policy and the Global Trading System: A Developing-Country Perspective

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Hoekman
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Trading System ◽  
System A

Who Are the Developing Countries in the WTO?

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Basic Method ◽  
Trading System ◽  
System A ◽  
Precise Identification ◽  
The World ◽  
World Trading System

The current world trading system lacks a procedure to identify developing country Members, to whom "Special and Differential Treatment" (SDT) is granted. Based on the analysis of five methods of identifying developing country Members, which are GATT Article XVIII definition, listing, classification, self-designation by SDT grantees, and selection by SDT grantors, we argue that "self-designation," which is widely claimed as the basic method of identifying developing country Members, gives them little certainty and predictability in their rights and obligations in the world trading system. A procedure that can make precise identification of SDT beneficiaries is indispensable in order to fulfill the WTO's objective of development.

Trade and Environment in the World Trading System: A Decade of Stalemate?

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Trade And Environment ◽  
Trading System ◽  
The Past ◽  
System A ◽  
The World ◽  
World Trading System

This article assesses the first decade of the trade-environment debate, and explores the possibilities for reconciliation of competing positions on trade-environment issues. It explores three aspects of the continuing conflict over trade and environment in the World Trade Organization. Rejecting both optimistic and pessimistic accounts of the past and future of the trade-environment debate it argues that important changes have occurred that have transformed the debate. But, despite the normalization of the trade-environment debate around the concept of sustainable development significant points of contention remain among the various participants.

Developing country participation in the GATT: a reassessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
RORDEN WILKINSON ◽  
JAMES SCOTT
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Free Ride ◽  
Multilateral Trading System ◽  
The Multilateral Trading System

AbstractTwo broad interpretations currently prevail in the literature on developing country participation in the GATT. The first suggests that developing countries spent most of their time in the GATT negotiating to be relieved of various commitments, focusing on the pursuit of industrialization through import substitution and/or free-riding on the commitments made by their industrial counterparts. The second interpretation suggests that developing countries spent the majority of their time in the GATT either as ‘quiet bystanders’ lacking the expertise or political representation to participate fully, or else attempting to redress biases in the institution's design. The problem with both of these interpretations is that while each has merit neither offers a sufficiently rounded account of developing country participation. Our purpose in this paper is to offer an alternative account of developing country participation that shows more accurately the extent and variation of that participation. We argue that throughout the development of the GATT developing countries were active participants that consistently sought to have an impact on the nature and direction of the multilateral trading system. We also argue that while the energy of developing countries was often directed towards negotiating more favourable treatment for themselves, this was a result more of the asymmetrical manner in which the GATT was deployed and a consequence of their relative underdevelopment than of a desire to free-ride on the favourable trading conditions created by the concession exchanging activities of others.

What Type of Competition Policy and Law Should a Developing Country Have? 1

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratnakar Adhikari ◽  
Malathy Knight-John
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Competition Policy
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