UN Millennium Development Library: Trade in Development

UN Millennium Project

• Foreword -- Task force members -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Overview -- 1 Introduction -- Why is trade expansion critical for the Goals? -- Developing countries and trade -- The World Trade Organization -- The Doha Development Agenda -- Structure of this report -- Part 1 Market access agenda -- 2 Why another Round? -- Who pays for protection? -- 3 Agriculture -- The current protection in OECD countries -- Benefits from farm liberalization -- Addressing concerns about liberalization -- Negotiating issues— strategic view and tactical choices -- 4 Services -- Existing levels of protection in services trade and investment -- Addressing concerns about liberalization -- Priorities for liberalization -- 5 Non-agricultural merchandise trade -- Current levels of protection -- Benefits of liberalization -- Managing adjustment -- Priorities for liberalization -- 6 Keeping markets open -- Contingent protection -- Standards -- 7 Preferential market access -- Has preferential access conferred the expected benefits? -- Has preferential access caused harm? -- Preference erosion -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Rules-related issues -- 8 What should be the scope o f WTO rules? -- Is there a link to market access? -- Are there domestic benefits to negotiating rules on regulation? -- Is there specific value in a WTO agreement? -- 9 The Singapore issues -- The Singapore issues left out of the Doha Round -- Trade facilitation -- Conclusion -- 10 The TR IPS Agreement -- TRIPS and access to medicines -- Interpreting the TRIPS regime on geographical indications -- Conclusion -- 11 Special and differential treatment -- Is there a development case for different treatment on “traditional” trade policy instruments? -- Is there a development case for different treatment on regulatory-type rules? -- Moving forward on special and differential treatment -- Part 3 Other systemic issues -- 12 Coherence -- Policy coherence at the national level -- Policy coherence at the international level -- Other policy coherence for development -- 13 Free trade agreements -- Do free trade agreements confer benefits? -- Intra-developing country free trade agreements -- 14 The Dispute Settlement Understanding -- Who uses the system? -- Why has developing country participation been limited? -- 15 Main conclusions and recommendations -- Main conclusions -- Main recommendations -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6 -- Appendix 7 -- Appendix 8 -- Countries on the UN official list of LDCs that are WTO Members or observers -- G'90 countries (ACP, LDC , or African Union) that are WTO Members or observers -- OECD members -- The