Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis
This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20100510100112 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3787 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the role of the
public sector in providing additional information to
exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor
and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the
rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information
generation and dissemination initiatives undertaken by the
WTO Secretariat, Global Trade Alert, and the World Bank in
response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given
trends in the imposition of new crisis-era trade barriers
that these initiatives have identified, the paper describes
ways in which the new sources of rich and detailed data may
be used to further assist developing country exporters that
may lack the capacity to sufficiently monitor their trading
interests by relying solely on private resources. |
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