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Developing Countries and the Global Trading System

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This first of two volumes contains eleven wide-ranging thematic studies from a multi-country Ford Foundation project on Developing Countries and the Global Trading System.2 How developing countries should approach their participation in the global trading system defines their subject matter. They outline some of their broad strategic options3 along with what seem to be the directions being taken on global trade issues in the various project countries.4 The chapters which follow evaluate the negotiating options for developing countries within the existing multilateral trade policy framework, including GATT and the Uruguay Round. They also ask what they might seek in terms of restructuring global arrangements so as to accommodate issues of concern to them.

An earlier version of this chapter was prepared for a meeting of the Ford Foundation project on Trade Policy and the Developing World held in Ottawa, 17–20 August, 1987. We are grateful to Ken Lewis, Trade Negotiations Office, Ottawa, for helpful discussions.

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  1. Colleen Hamilton
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  1. Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations, University of Western Ontario, Canada

    John Whalley (Director) (Director)

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Hamilton, C., Whalley, J. (1989). Introduction. In: Whalley, J. (eds) Developing Countries and the Global Trading System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20417-5_1

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