Viewpoint : WTO; the knowledge deficit in trade negotiations
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2003
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IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA
Abstract
Vietnamese research highlights the needs of developing countries for special transitional provisions in any new WTO trade-liberalizing arrangement — provisions giving poor countries extra time, and aid, to adjust to global competition and to distribute the gains of globalization within their own societies. Moreover, domestic policy reform makes sense even without any reciprocation by trading partners. Successful trade policy and trade agreements must fit coherently alongside sound domestic development policy based on rigorous local research. Poor-country negotiators are too often expected to protect the interests of their people with no confident or complete knowledge of what those interests are.
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French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Point de vue : OMC; le déficit des connaissances dans les négociations commerciales
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TRADE POLICY, ECONOMIC RESEARCH, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, VIET NAM, WTO, TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, GLOBAL SOUTH, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT