The current WTO negotiations have a strong focus on development, but a number of developing countries are uncertain as to how to approach these negotiations. Trade liberalization tends to boost economic growth and contribute to the reduction of poverty in the longer term, but it may also impose...

Until the Uruguay Round, agricultural trade policies were subject to few multilateral disciplines. In this situation, the interplay of special-interest lobbying pressures resulted in this sector becoming heavily distorted. One of the great achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations...