What Would a Development-Friendly WTO Architecture Really Look Like?
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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.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2003/153
Subject:
International trade Labor Labor mobility Tariffs Taxes Trade barriers Trade negotiation
English
Publication Date:
August 20, 2003
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451857177/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA1532003
Pages:
21
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