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Least developed countries and the WTO : special treatment in trade / Helen Hawthorne, Visiting Lecturer, City University London, UK.
Lippincott Library HF1413 .H39 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Helen, 1968-
- Series:
- International political economy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial treaties.
- Developing countries--Commercial policy.
- Developing countries.
- Commercial policy.
- Developing countries--Commerce.
- Commerce.
- Developing countries--Commercial treaties.
- World Trade Organization.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Least developed countries and the World Trade Organization
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organizations 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 organizations. She shows that few studies of international organizations 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 organization and do not get a true picture of the organization, how it operates in relation to them and their impact on the organization. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The International Norm of Special Treatment for LDCs 17
- 3 LDCs in the GATT 38
- 4 Norm Institutionalization in the WTO 53
- 5 Case Study 1 - LDCs Accession to the WTO 68
- 6 Case Study 2 - Benefiting from Trade: Market Access and LDCs 89
- 7 Case Study 3 - Cotton and the LDCs: The Litmus Test? 109
- 8 Conclusion 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137269768
- 1137269766
- OCLC:
- 827256466
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