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| Rethinking the South’s
Openness |
Isabelle
Bensidoun
Agnès Chevallier
Guillaume Gaulier |
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| Progress towards openness and trade has not
led to a general move to converging living standards. If some developing countries
have indeed caught up with the rich countries, others remain far behind. The former
are not systematically those countries which are the most open and the relationship
between trade liberalisation and growth appear to be more complex than is often
claimed by the advocates of openness. This is not without consequences for the
wto, given that most developing countries are now full members of the organisation,
having signed the Marrakech Agreements. The next trade round which opens in Doha
will have to rebuild trust in a trading system, with multilateral rules designed
to replace power politics. The application of special and differential treatment
which really guarantees access to Northern markets for developing countries and
which recognises that trade liberalisation should not be favoured ahead of development
would be determinant from this point of view. |
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| The
Nature of Specialization Matters for Growth: an Empirical Investigation, Working
Paper n° 01-13, December 2001 |
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