Emerging Powers in the WTO: Developing Countries and Trade in the 21st Century [Hardcover]

This volume examines the main factors for developing country trade performance in the last thirty years, their own trade policies, market access issues they face, and their increasingly more effective participation in the WTO and the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Developing Countries in World Trade 1. Trends in Developing-Country Trade, 1980-2010 2. Trade and Development in GATT and the WTO 3. WTO Accession Issues 4. Developing-Country Policies 5. Developing-Country Trade-Related Institutions and Aid for Trade 6. Developed-Country Policies 7. The TRIPs Agreement and Developing Countries 8. Developing-Country Participation in the WTO 9. The Doha Round Negotiations 10. The Future of WTO in Global Governance 11. Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix 1: Country Groupings Appendix 2: Method of Estimating Frequency Ratios References Index

The participation of developing countries in global trade has increased dramatically since the 1980s. This excellent book provides a highly readable analysis of the drivers of this change, the disparities in outcomes across countries and the implications for the multilateral trading system. It should be required reading for all tarde and development practitioners. - Bernard Hoekman, Director, Global Economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Congratulations- Emerging Powers in the WTO will make a great contribution to the subject and wonderful material for both students and practitioners.I am enjoying and learning a lot from it. - K.Y. Amoako, President, African Center for Economic Transfromation, Accra, Ghana

The global trading landscape has changed dramatically since the Uruguay Round. Michalopoulos draws upon his decades of experience at the intersection of trade and development to analyse these changes in technology, geopolitics and commercial practices, and provides the path for the trading syslÄ