Developing countries and services in the uruguay round

The Millennium Round and Developing Countries:

Agriculture, Developing Countries and the Wto Millennium Round

AGRICULTURE, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AND THE WTO MILLENNIUM ROUND

TRIPS and Developing Countries: The Seattle Round and Beyond Paper Presented to the Conference on Developing Countries and the New Multilateral Round of Trade Negotiations

The author is most grateful to Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Panagariya, and especially to Jayashree Watal, for helpful suggestions on an earlier draft. Errors, of course, remain my own. The views expressed here do not represent those of the International Monetary Fund or its Executive Board.

The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies

There is widespread concern about the effect of the Uruguay Round policy changes on world agricultural prices and consequently upon the welfare of developing countries. Assessing welfare changes with the standard terms of trade effect calculation can be misleading for distorted economies, since the distortion effect operates in addition or in opposition to the terms of trade effect. This study ...

Developing Countries and a New Round of WTO Negotiations*

This article summarizes some of the results and findings emerging from an ongoing World Bank research and capacity-building project that focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating agenda from a developing country perspective. Recent research suggests that the potential gains from further multilateral liberalization of trade remain very large. The payoffs associated with attempts ...