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WTO Law and Developing Countries Reprint Edition
Author(s): George A. Bermann (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2011
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 382 pages
- ISBN-10: 110740309X
- ISBN-13: 9781107403093
Book Description
Developing countries make up the majority of the membership of the World Trade Organization. Many developing countries believe that the welfare gains that were supposed to ensue from the establishment of the WTO and the results of the Uruguay Round remain largely unachieved. Coming on the heels of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the ongoing Doha Development Round, launched in that Middle Eastern city in the fall of 2001, is now on ‘life support’. It was inaugurated with much fanfare as a means of addressing the difficulties faced by developing countries within the multilateral trading system. Special and differential treatment provisions in the WTO agreement in particular are the focus of much discussion in the ongoing round, and voices for change are multiplying because of widespread dissatisfaction with the effectiveness, enforceability, and implementation of those special treatment provisions.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Review of the hardback: ‘WTO Law and Developing Countries represent[s] [an] important contribution on the path to understanding what lies ahead.’ Leiden Journal of International Law
Book Description
This book examines the way the WTO treats different developing countries and how that treatment varies from state to state.
