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- Title: Operationalizing Special and Differential Treatment in the World Trade Organization: Game over?(Report)
- Author : Global Governance
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 287 KB
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********** As the Doha Round drags on, many are looking with increasing skepticism at its Development Agenda, concerned that even a successful end to the negotiations will be no more development-friendly than was the Uruguay Round before it. That round concluded with the successful creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. But since then, it has become clearer that developed countries fared better in the final outcome, with fewer disciplines imposed in areas critical to developing countries, such as agriculture and textiles, and more in areas traditionally the province of developed countries, such as intellectual property. From the time that the Doha Round commenced in 2001, many WTO members, commentators, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called for greater emphasis on special and differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO in order to improve support for development and rebalance the playing field. In particular, these voices insist that the existing special and differential treatment provisions in WTO law must be operationalized. Indeed, the ministerial declaration that launched the Doha Round specifically mandated a review of all special and differential treatment provisions "with a view to strengthening them and making them more precise, effective and operational." (1)