Developing Countries at Doha: A Political Economy Analysis
(World Economy, Vol. 25, No. 9, September 2002, pp. 1205-33) The paper offers a comprehensive analysis of what developing countries accomplished and failed to accomplish and why. Among the questions addressed are: Did developing countries get shortchanged in the Uruguay Round and if yes in what way? Does the Doha outcome reverse this? Is the success in the area of intellectual property rights truly as major as has been made out in the media? Why do so many developing countries oppose the Singapore issues? Why do developing countries have very limited bargaining power? How can they improve upon it? And what are the implications of China joining the WTO?