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The UNCTAD-India Programme is organising a lecture on “Special & Differential Treatment in the WTO” by Ms. Sheila Page, Group Coordinator and Research Fellow, International economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute, London, here tomorrow.
Ms. Sheila Page is also the author, along with Peter Kleen of a major Report on ” Special & Differential (S&D) Treatment of developing countries in the WTO” which says that S&D should increase the benefits to developing countries from trade. “The purpose of the WTO is to provide the rules which will allow its members, which represent a wide range of different types of economy and levels of development, to grow and develop without impeding the progress of others…. If the WTO members now accept that the organisation should aim for universal membership, in order to ensure that the benefits of certainty and predictability apply to all trade by its members, then both the possibility that some countries are permanently ‘different’ and the certainty that some will not share the same approach to all rules imply that the WTO must either limit its rules to those who can benefit and be accepted by all members or allow permanent derogations for countries with different economies or different approaches to economic policy”, the Report says.
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