The WTO and Developing Countries

This book shows how large an impact the WTO has on developing countries. It assesses the subsidies given and shows how they will be affected by trade liberalization. It looks in particular at the TRIPS agreement and assesses the costs and benefits that it will have for developing countries. Many of the chapters are versions of papers presented at The WTO and Developing Countries conference, held at King's College London in September 2002. It combines contributions non governmental organizations such as Save the Children, Oxfam and Action Aid, as well as those from academics in the field. V.N. BALASUBRAMANYAM University of Lancaster CAROLINE ELLIOTT CLIVE GEORGE NIGEL GRIMWADE JOHN HILARY Save the Children Fund COLIN KIRKPATRICK University of Manchester RUTH MAYNE Oxfam CHRIS MILNER JIM NEWTON DWIJEN RANGNEKAR University College London TIM RICE MAHMUT SONMEZ BHAVANI SHANKAR Imperial College London and University of Reading C.S. SRINIVASAN Imperial College London and University of Reading COLIN THIRTLE Imperial College London and University of Reading ALAN WINTERS DELI YANG