The Politics of Wto Dispute Settlement
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assistance and Eric Reinhardt for access to a database of GATT and WTO disputes.
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Developing Countries and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement
It has long been observed that developing countries made scant use of dispute settlement under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Less clear are the reasons for this. Most observers insist that the various GATT reforms that were intended to help developing countries failed to insulate them from the “power politics” of the system (Kuruvila, 1997). Not surprisingly, many of these ...
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