The author analyzes 61 trade policy reviews prepared for the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT … - reviews that document the progress developing countries have made in integration with the world trading system over the past … country positions on major issues inthe new round of WTO trade negotiations. His key conclusions and recommendations: 1 …

The authors discuss options that could be considered in the World Trade Organization (WTO) to provide more favorable … both for differentiation across WTO members and for steps that would benefit all developing countries. The authors suggest … abolish export subsidies and nontariff barriers (tariff quotas) and to reduce most-favored-nation tariffs on labor …

'representation and participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO) as of mid-1997 to determine how developing countries can … developing countries that are members of the WTO participate little more than they did in the early 1980s and have not increased … main constraints to effective participation and representation of their interests at the WTO. To make their participation …

Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first … of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …

provisions affecting developing countries in the GATT and the WTO. He focuses on the provisions calling for the special and … differential treatment of developing countries. The WTO's special, and differential treatment has been extended to include measures … agreed on in the Uruguay round of negotiations. At the same time, many WTO provisions encourage industrial countries to give …

prices in international markets, whether China's WTO accession will provide an example of trade reform aggravating poverty by …The author offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization … showing that farm product markets remain the most costly of all goods market distortions in world trade. The author focuses on …

countries, rather than merely a few, expand manufactured exports. He considers two driving forces for export expansion: the … dynamic export growth driven by productivity gains for manufactured exports, the welfare effects are much greater and the … export pessimists that a country expanding its manufactured exports will receive depressed prices for those exports. But his …

For most developing countries, the proportion of exports going to other developing countries has steadily increased …

in the manufacture and export of labor intensive goods - and prepared a list of those goods. A study of actual exports …Labor intensive goods are the strongest export items for developing countries - and the United States is the developing … for 1965 - 1986 revealed that with few exceptions, export performance of those labor-intensive goods was superior in …