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Author :Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo Publisher :United Nations Publications ISBN 13 :9789211125689 Total Pages :383 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (256 download)
Book Synopsis WTO Accessions and Development Policies by : Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo
Download or read book WTO Accessions and Development Policies written by Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication considers the key issues involved in World Trade Organization (WTO) accession, based upon the experience of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in assisting developing countries and countries in transition in the accession process. It examines the difficulties faced by acceding countries, particularly least developed countries (LDCs), and aims to promote the strengthening of support for their integration into the international trading system on balanced terms consistent with their development needs.
Book Synopsis Accession to the WTO for developing countries. Strategies for gaining maximum benefits by : Tewachew Alem
Download or read book Accession to the WTO for developing countries. Strategies for gaining maximum benefits written by Tewachew Alem and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, grade: A, Bahria University (School of Law), language: English, abstract: The objective of this paper is to present a survey of trade issues in WTO membership from the perspective of developing countries putting Ethiopia in focus. Developing countries are a large percentage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) membership, in which Ethiopia is on process of acquiring membership. Trade liberalization may be unilateral, bilateral, sub-regional or multilateral. The end of the cold war has witnessed an increasingly growing wave of unilateral trade liberalization accompanied by a regulatory framework that facilitates and enhances the momentum. Although the impact of unilateral trade liberalization undertaken in many countries including Ethiopia deserves discussion, the theme of this article has necessitated focus on multilateral trade liberalization under the WTO system. As LDC, Ethiopia is likely to be given some flexibility in assuming liberalization commitments. However, it will be asked to agree to some threshold of liberalization, and it is important for Ethiopia to be prepared to undertake commitments and develop a negotiation strategy that protects its interests. In addition, to respond effectively to the requests of WTO members, it is indispensable for the government of Ethiopia to have thorough information and analyze the potential consequences of liberalization. This term paper has three main parts in which the first part will discuss about trade liberalization with its justification and protectionism and its effects on economic development. The second part of the paper will focus on the opportunities and challenges of WTO membership to developing countries. In this part the consequences of the WTO membership of the developing countries will be analyzed in terms of its benefits and harms. The third part of the paper deals with the necessary precautions the developing countries are required to take before joining the WTO. In this part, the role of the WTO in helping the developing countries not to be affected negatively by becoming a member; necessary development level countries are required to attain before joining the WTO; and necessary measures to be undertaken during negotiation process not to take a commitment which will be against the national interest of the country. The fourth part deals on the Ethiopia WTO accession and assess the experience of WTO accessed least developing countries. Finally, the conclusion and recommendation with lessen to Ethiopia addressed.
Book Synopsis Accession of the Least Developed Countries to the WTO by : Nabin Kunwar Chhetri
Download or read book Accession of the Least Developed Countries to the WTO written by Nabin Kunwar Chhetri and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Acceding to the WTO from a Least-developed Country Perspective by : Markus Krajewski
Download or read book Acceding to the WTO from a Least-developed Country Perspective written by Markus Krajewski and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO) entails enormous challenges for developing countries - in particular, the least-developed countries. The challenges include the effects of market opening and international competition on the local economy, as well as fundamental aspects of law and regulatory reform. This book addresses these challenges, from the perspective of Ethiopia, which has been negotiating its accession to the WTO since 2003. The topics addressed include the effects of WTO law on agriculture, intellectual property rights, financial market regulation, as well as regional integration in Africa. The book will appeal to all who are interested in the impact of world trade law on developing countries. (Series: Studies in International Economic Law Vol. 3)
Book Synopsis WTO Accession for Countries in Transition by : Constantine Michalopoulos
Download or read book WTO Accession for Countries in Transition written by Constantine Michalopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1998 Accession to the World Trade Organization should be expedited, and the processing time for applications reduced to no more than two years. This would enable the WTO to achieve universal membership in the next five years, a worthwhile objective for the international community. Countries in transition have considered membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) an important step toward integration in the international economic system. After several years of negotiations, five members of the former Soviet Union (FSU)-Armenia, the three Baltic countries, and the Kyrgyz Republic-may become members in 1998. It will probably take longer for Russia, Ukraine, and some others. It takes four to five years to process applications for FSU countries-which is close to average for recent applicants. The five countries expected to accede to the WTO this year are among the more liberal members of the FSU. With those five processed, there will be a backlog of another 26 applications, most them countries in transition, including China and Russia. At the current rate of processing, it will take five to six years to process them-and a decade or more for the 25 or so developing and transition economies that have yet to apply. Processing is time-consuming because: * Legislative requirements needed for accession are time-consuming. * Candidate countries are weak institutionally and unfamiliar with the economic and legal issues to be addressed. * The fact finding process is unneccessarily cumbersome and time-consuming. * Technical assistance to applicants in meeting the requirements for WTO accession is not effectively coordinated. * Addressing the commercial interests of all members requires protracted negotiations. Governments seeking accession must coordinate the legislative and regulatory changes needed in their foreign trade regimes, adopt liberal trade policies, and identify areas of institutional weakness that require delays in implementation of WTO provisions and seek agreement on such delays. WTO members, for their part, should expedite the process, as universal membership is in everyone's best interest. They should: * Agree to suitable, time-bound extensions to allow acceding governments to address institutional weaknesses. * Provide coordinated assistance to acceding countries to strengthen their institutional capacity. * Streamline the fact finding aspects of the accession process and give the WTO secretariat the budgetary resources it needs to work with applicant governments for this purpose. This paper is part of a larger effort of the World Bank to collaborate with the World Trade Organization in developing approaches for the more effective integration of the developing countries and transition economies in the international trading system. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Book Synopsis A Handbook on the WTO Dispute Settlement System by : World Trade Organization
Download or read book A Handbook on the WTO Dispute Settlement System written by World Trade Organization and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a detailed explanation of the rules and procedures of the WTO dispute settlement system.
Book Synopsis Least Developed Countries and the WTO by : H. Hawthorne
Download or read book Least Developed Countries and the WTO written by H. Hawthorne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the LDCs have been treated by other states. Helen Hawthorne investigates how norms impact on negotiations in international organisations. She shows that few studies of international organisations focus on the role of the weaker states in the organization, the majority focus either on the major states or the emerging economies. By ignoring the role of the poorer, weaker states in the GATT/WTO we are ignoring the history of these states in the organisation and do not get a true picture of the organization, how it operates in relation to them and their impact on the organisation.
Book Synopsis Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation by : Peter Gallagher
Download or read book Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation written by Peter Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents different experiences among economies in addressing the challenges of participating in the WTO.
Book Synopsis A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement by : Antony Taubman
Download or read book A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement written by Antony Taubman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive and non-technical explanation of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), later legal instruments, current policy issues and the relationship between TRIPS and public health. It is aimed at an audience including government officials and policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, academics and students.
Book Synopsis Lao Economic Reform & WTO Accession by : Kym Anderson
Download or read book Lao Economic Reform & WTO Accession written by Kym Anderson and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unilateral and regional (ASEAN) trade and investment liberalizations pursued by the Lao PDR during the past few years have begun transforming the economy. The next logical step is to join the World Trade Organization, an application for which was submitted in 1998. The WTO legal bindings will give traders and investors increased confidence in the Lao reform programme. This book outlines what the WTO accession process involves, what policies the Lao Government will have to change, and what the economic effects will be, particularly on rural development.
Book Synopsis How to Optimize Advantages of Accession to the World Trade Organization by : Bacry Yusuf
Download or read book How to Optimize Advantages of Accession to the World Trade Organization written by Bacry Yusuf and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Bangkok Regional Seminar on Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO (18-21 February 2002) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :129 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (156 download)
Book Synopsis Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO Through Regional Cooperation by : Bangkok Regional Seminar on Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO (18-21 February 2002)
Download or read book Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO Through Regional Cooperation written by Bangkok Regional Seminar on Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO (18-21 February 2002) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Impact of China's WTO Accession on East Asia by : Elena Ianchovichina
Download or read book The Impact of China's WTO Accession on East Asia written by Elena Ianchovichina and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession will have major implications for China and present both opportunities and challenges for East Asia. Ianchovichina and Walmsley assess the possible channels through which China's accession to the WTO could affect East Asia and quantify these effects using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. China will be the biggest beneficiary of accession, followed by the industrial and newly industrializing economies (NIEs) in East Asia. But their benefits are small relative to the size of their economies and to the vigorous growth projected to occur in the region over the next 10 years. By contrast, developing countries in East Asia are expected to incur small declines in real GDP and welfare as a result of China's accession, mainly because with the elimination of quotas on Chinese textile and apparel exports to industrial countries China will become a formidable competitor in areas in which these countries have comparative advantage. With WTO accession China will increase its demand for petrochemicals, electronics, machinery, and equipment from Japan and the NIEs, and farm, timber, energy products, and other manufactures from the developing countries in East Asia. New foreign investment is likely to flow into these expanding sectors. The overall impact on foreign investment is likely to be positive in the NIEs, but negative for the less developed East Asian countries as a result of the contraction of these economies' textile and apparel sector. As China becomes a more efficient supplier of services or a more efficient producer of high-end manufactures, its comparative advantage will shift into higher-end products. This is good news for the poor developing economies in East Asia, but it implies that the impact of China's WTO accession on the NIEs may change to include heightened competition in global markets. This paper"a product of the Economic Policy Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network"is part of a larger effort in the network to assess the impact of China's WTO accession.
Book Synopsis Most-favoured-nation Treatment by : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Download or read book Most-favoured-nation Treatment written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication contains an explanation of Most Favored Nation (MFN) treatment and some of the key issues that arise in its negotiation, particularly the scope and application of MFN treatment to the liberalization and protection of foreign investors in recent treaty practice. The paper provides policy options as regards the traditional application of MFN treatment and identifies reactions by States to the unexpected broad use of MFN treatment, and provides several drafting options, such as specifying or narrowing down the scope of application of MFN treatment to certain types of activities, clarifying the nature of "treatment" under the IIA, clarifying the comparison that an arbitral tribunal needs to undertake as well as a qualification of the comparison "in like circumstances" or excluding its use in investor-State cases.
Book Synopsis Making WTO membership work for least-developed countries by :
Download or read book Making WTO membership work for least-developed countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a strategy to promote broad-based growth, Nepal and Cambodia became Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2004 as the first least-developed countries (LDCs) to join the WTO since it was founded in 1995.2 Their bid for membership was motivated by a desire to ensure predictable market access and become eligible for the special concessions available to LDCs under WTO rules. [...] A number of LDCs had previously acceded to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor to the WTO, and these LDCs are among the founding members of the WTO. [...] Source: WTO website ( ); WTO Secretariat, information on current accessions, WT/ACC/* In any case, the speed of accession provides little indication on the ease of the process and the quality of the results. [...] This is not to say that the terms of accession on the whole or indeed the commitments discussed here will be disadvantageous for the countries (this would require a far more comprehensive assessment of both the terms and the associated impacts of WTO accession). [...] While Cambodia did not provide any export subsidies at the time of the negotiations, and was unlikely to do so to a significant extent for fiscal reasons, it seems only reasonable for the country to be allowed the flexibility to use such subsidies in the future if needed.12 Serv ces: Both Nepal and Cambodia made extensive commitments to liberalize the trade in services, opening up all of the 11 se.
Author :United Nations. Economic and Social Council. Committee for Development Policy Publisher : ISBN 13 :9789211046908 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (469 download)
Book Synopsis Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category by : United Nations. Economic and Social Council. Committee for Development Policy
Download or read book Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category written by United Nations. Economic and Social Council. Committee for Development Policy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an updated comprehensive explanation of the criteria, procedures and methodology used in establishing which countries are eligible for inclusion in, or recommended for graduation from, the least developed country (LDC) category. It also provides an overview of the special support measures that can be derived from having least developed country status.
Author :United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Publisher :Univ of California Press ISBN 13 :9789211201314 Total Pages :138 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO Through Regional Cooperation by : United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Download or read book Facilitating the Accession of ESCAP Developing Countries to WTO Through Regional Cooperation written by United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is based on the papers presented at a regional seminar, held in February 2002 in Thailand, to discuss the experiences of developing countries in the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) region concerning accession to the World Trade Organization and to identify lessons from them. The report details the conclusions and recommendations from the seminar; explains the current status of the WTO accession process and the experience of ESCAP acceding countries; and presents country papers on the position in Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Thailand, Tonga and Vanuatu.
