Trade-Environment Nexus in Gatt Jurisprudence: Pressing Issues for Developing Countries

Developing Countries and the GATT/WTO

Developing countries, by definition, are countries that are less advanced or matured in major areas such as technology and defence, and also have a low Human Development Index, which measures life expectancy, income and the quality of education. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which came into effect in January 1948 and transformed into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Ja...

What GATT begot: environment versus trade.

on male Jewish residents of Israel who were hospitalized at the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in the years 1978-1982. A record check identified 37 cases of brain tumour who fulfilled the criteria for inclusion in the study and whose hospital files included the necessary data. For each case two controls were chosen randomly from all patients with inguinal hernia who met the respective matching cri...

The Gatt , Agriculture , and the Developing Countries

Trade Facilitation in Developing Countries

Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly concerned with the ease and speed of Customs procedures, even greater trade cost reductions and trade and welfare benefits may be reaped from a broader view of trade facilitation (TF) that incorporates tra...

Nutritional issues for women in developing countries.

There has been increased recognition over the past decade of the importance of nutrition in women in developing countries with international organizations' initiatives encouraging work on the issue. However, discussion of women's nutrition in developing countries has focused upon maternal nutrition with regard to the effect of maternal nutritional status on birth weight and lactational perform...