The paper highlighted how gradual reduction in the tariff barriers aimed to facilitating market access for goods that was at the heart of the GATT process. These reductions were negotiated line by line and attempt was also made to deal with non-tariff barriers (NTBs), elimination of tariffs on...

The paper documents experiences of the actual privatization of Bangladesh over the last 20 years. It also looks at the expanding compass of privatization, its underlying problems and reviews the evidence. The paper also discusses implications of the present approach to privatization in...

The paper presents a study of the WTO-Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health and explores the opportunities of the growth of Bangladesh’s domestic pharmaceutical industry. The paper comes up with a number of policy suggestions in terms of designing a national strategy for the development...