Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Bhagirath Lal Das Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 1842772988
Описание
Following the Doha Ministerial Declaration in November 2001, the developed countries have catapulted the WTO into an intensive, three-year round of further international trade negotiations. In this concise guide to the issues involved, B L Das, one of the world's leading authorities on the WTO, explains the new Work Programme which will guide these negotiations. Far from constituting a 'development agenda' as the North touted it to be, he argues that issues of great importance to developing countries like textiles and balance of payments do not even figure in the Work Programme. Instead, it gives special attention to those areas which are of interest to the major developed countries, thereby further increasing the imbalance in the WTO system betweenNorth and South. Indeed the Work Programme looks set to benefit these countries who have given nothing in return to the developing countries. The author explains and assesses the implications of each issue likely to figure in...
