Developed Country Trade Barriers and the Least Developed Countries: The Current Situation

an examination of the preferential treatment of developed and least developed countries in the world trade organization

the least developed and developing countries constitute two third of the members the world trade organizations (wto). these groups of countries have different views and concerns on international trade issues. as far as development is concerned, they have different needs and their economic system is often weak and fragile and therefore, they need extra protection. the wto agreements contain spec...

Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries?

Developing countries can generate effective solutions for today's global health challenges. This paper reviews relevant literature to construct the case for international cooperation, and in particular, developed-developing country partnerships. Standard database and web-based searches were conducted for publications in English between 1990 and 2010. Studies containing full or partial data rela...

The Effects of Foreign Trade, Energy Consumption and Human Capital on GDP in Several Candidate Developed Countries and Developing Countries

Abstract T his paper attempted to examine the effects of foreign trade, energy consumption, human capital and physical capital on GDP in 8 candidate developing countries and 8 candidate developed countries during 2002-2014.In this study, the effects of variables were estimated through panel cointegration technique and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS).The results of regression te...

Industrial Development in Least Developed Countries

Forthcoming: World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2005 Agricultural Liberalization and the Least developed Countries: Six Fallacies

Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalization in the Doha negotiations is rightly the top priority. But the public-policy discourse on the subject remains fogged by a number of fallacies. These fallacies probably originated with the leadership of the World Bank but have now been embraced by the IMF, OECD, Oxfam and the leading ...