What Would a Development-Friendly WTO Architecture Really Look Like?

August 20, 2003

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Arvind Subramanian, and Aaditya Mattoo. What Would a Development-Friendly WTO Architecture Really Look Like?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper elaborates on a number of key principles that need to underpin a coherent and development-friendly architecture for the WTO. The key principles include enlarging the scope of WTO bargaining to include labor flows as well as capital flows; creating a structure that would provide a balance between furthering liberalization and providing some discretion or policy space to accommodate the inevitable political constraints; and minimizing the extent of regulatory harmonization. These principles, while applicable to all countries, may have less immediate relevance in addressing the problems of the least developed countries.

Subject: International trade, Labor, Labor mobility, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade barriers, Trade negotiation

Keywords: Architecture, Country, Developing country, Development, Doha round, Firm, Global, Labor mobility, Liberalization, Rule, Tariffs, Trade barriers, Trade liberalization literature, Trade negotiation, WP, WTO, WTO architecture, WTO dispute-resolution panel, WTO provision, WTO rule, WTO system

Publication Details

Pages:

21
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2003/153
Stock No:

WPIEA1532003
ISBN:

9781451857177
ISSN:

1018-5941

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