Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis

Chad Bown

No 5301, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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 theseinitiatives 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.

Keywords: Free Trade; Trade Law; Economic Theory&Research; Trade Policy; Emerging Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05-01
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