Coalitions in the Uruguay Round: The Extent, Pros and Cons of Developing Country Participation 1,2

Colleen Hamilton and John Whalley

No 2751, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper both documents the involvement of developing countries in coalitional activity in the current GATT Uruguay round thus far, and provides a rudimenting evaluation of the pros and cons of the different options for them as far as coalitional strategies are concerned. The main conclusions are that much of the coalitional activity involving developing countries thus far in the round has been agenda-moving and joint proposal-making, rather than negotiating involving exchanges of concession. At the same time, however, coalitional activity by a larger group of mid-sized developed and smaller developing countries who see a major interest in preserving the multilateral system has been central to the process.

Date: 1988-10
Note: ITI IFM
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Published as From A European Central Bank? edited by Marcello de Cecco and Alberto Giovannini. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Published as Weltwirschaf Archives, Vol. 125, No. 3, pp. 547-562, September 1989.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w2751.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:2751

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w2751

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().