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Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in the WTO: Moving Forward After Cancún

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:37 authored by Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos, L. Alan WintersL. Alan Winters
The issue of special and differential treatment (SDT) for developing countries in the WTO has become a source of tension in North-South trade relations. The absence of an effective SDT regime clearly contributed to the failure of the Cancún Ministerial meeting of the WTO. This paper argues for a new approach that puts the emphasis on efforts to improve the development relevance of WTO rules and create mechanisms which allow greater differentiation across WTO members in determining the applicability of WTO disciplines; complemented by non-discriminatory liberalisation of trade in goods and services in which developing countries have an export interest. The former is key in allowing the WTO to expand its reach to new `behind the border¿ policies; and the latter is important to establishing a development dimension in multilateral trade negotiations.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

World Economy

ISSN

0378-5920

Issue

4

Volume

27

Page range

481-506

Pages

26.0

Department affiliated with

  • Economics Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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