Developing Countries And The Multilateral Trading System

T.N. Srinivasan

• 1. Introduction 2. The GATT, the ITO, and the WTO: Geneva 1947 to Marrakech 1994 through Havana 1947–1948 3. Developing Countries and the GATT: Havana 1947–1948 to Tokyo 1979 4. The GATT: A Negotiating History Between Tokyo 1979 and Marrakech 1994 5. Achievements and Failures of the Uruguay Round: Market Access for Goods 6. Issues Other than Market Access for Goods: Services, TRIMs and TRIPs, Safeguards, Dispute-Settlement, and Nontariff Measures 7. Subregionalism, Regionalism, and Multilateralism 8. Trade, the Environment, and Labor Standards 9. Making the Best out of the Post-Uruguay Round World: Institutional Innovations and Reforms in Developing Countries 10. Cooperation Among the Multilateral Economic Institutions 11. Summary and Conclusions 12. Postscript