The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda

The "development credibility" of the current trade regime in general, and the WTO in particular, is at stake. The Doha Round aims to reverse the brewing scepticism by providing a reliable engine of trade-led growth and development. The essays in this volume identify the key challenges in this regard, make an assessment of the current situation in agriculture and manufacturing market access and evaluate alternative policy options that will make the goal attainable.

Auteur

RAJEEV AHUJA Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India KYM ANDERSON Professor at the School of Economics and Executive Director at the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia MARC BACCHETTA Counsellor at the Economic Research and Analysis Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Switzerland BIJIT BORA Counsellor at the Economic Research and Analysis Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Switzerland LUCIAN CERNAT Associate Economic Officer at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Switzerland BETINA DIMARANAN Research Economist at the Center for Global Trade Analysis at Purdue University, USA NILABJA GHOSH Reader at the Institute for Economic Growth at the University of Enclave, India JON D. HAVEMAN Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, USA THOMAS HERTEL Distinguished Professor and Director at the Center for Global Trade Analysis at Purdue University, USA BERNARD HOEKMAN Policy and Research Manager at The World Bank, USA ROMAN KEENEY Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Global Trade Analysis at Purdue University, USA SAM LAIRD Officer-in-Charge at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Switzerland and Special Professor of International Economics at the University of Nottingham, UK CATHIE LAROCHE DUPRAZ Coordinatrice DAA économie-gestion, Pôle d'enseignement supérieuragronomique de Rennes, Département Economie Rurale et Gestion, France ALAN MATTHEWS Jean Monnet Professor of European Agricultural Policy, Department of Economics at Trinity College, Ireland LUCA MONGE-ROFFARELLO Economic Affairs Officer at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Switzerland HOWARD J. SHATZ Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, USA ALESSANDRO TURRINI Associate Economic Officer at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD

Résumé
These are turbulent times for the international trading community, the WTO in particular. Although Cancun failed, Can the WTO still reassert its development-credibility by ensuring that Doha truly becomes the Development Round? What should the negotiating strategy of the developing countries be? Will the political constituencies in the OECD allow reform of their domestic policies that benefit the developing countries? How big are the regional disparities in the effects of agricultural trade reform in the developing countries? Are the Preferential Trading Agreements doing enough for the least developed countries? How much more can the US, the EU and Japan do to increase developing countries' exports?These and other vital questions are addressed in this volume which has been prepared within the UNU/WIDER project on The Impact of the WTO Regime on Developing Countries.

Contenu

PART I: OVERVIEW The WTO, Trade and Development: An Introduction; B.Guha-Khasnobis Developing Countries and the WTO Doha Round: Market Access, Rules and Differential Treatment; B.Hoekman PART II: AGRICULTURE Trade Liberalization, Agriculture, and Poverty in Low-income Countries; K.Anderson OECD Domestic Support and Developing Countries; B.Dimaranan, T.Hertel & R.Keeney Impact of Trade Liberalization on Returns from Land: A Regional Study of Indian Agriculture; N.Ghosh The Value of Agricultural Tariff Rate Quotas to Developing Countries; C.Laroche Dupraz & A.Matthews PART III: MANUFACTURING Industrial Tariffs, LDCs and the Doha Development Agenda; M.Bacchetta & Bijit Bora Developed Country Trade Barriers and the Least Developed Countries: The Economic Results of Freeing Trade; J.D.Haveman & H.J.Shatz The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed Countries; L.Cernat, S.Laird, L.Monge-Roffarello & A.Turrini Export Subsidies: Theory, Evidence, and the WTO Agreement on Subsidies; R.Ahuja