Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience

ISBN-13: 9780521769679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 350 str.

Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz

Opis

An evaluation of the experiences of individual developing countries in developing mechanisms to access the WTO legal system.

Recenzje

'Given the serious domestic governance shortcomings in most of the countries examined - which virtually certainly exist in other countries - and given the extreme political difficulties of changing retaliation rules, the focus on domestic governance and improved operation within the existing system is not only a sound one, but also the only realistic one. The book deserves credit for the clarity with which it makes this general point, all the while permitting a nuanced, country-specific analysis that does justice to the peculiarities and specific challenges of each of the examined countries.' World Trade Review

Spis treści

The law-in-action of the WTO: the developing country experience Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz and Gregory Shaffer; Introduction David Evans and Gregory Shaffer; Part I. Case Studies from South America: 1. Winning at the WTO: the development of a trade policy community within Brazil Gregory Shaffer, Michelle Ratton Sanchez and Barbara Rosenberg; 2. Argentina's experience with WTO dispute settlement: development of national capacity and the use of in-house lawyers José L. Pérez Gabilondo; Part II. Case Studies from Asia: 3. China's experience and challenges in utilising the WTO dispute settlement mechanism Han Liyu and Henry Gao; 4. Learning from the India-EC GSP dispute: the issues and the process Biswajit Dhar and Abhik Majumdar; 5. Thailand's experience in the WTO dispute settlement system: challenging the EC sugar regime Pornchai Danvivathana; 6. How the DSU worked for Bangladesh: the first least developed country to bring a WTO claim Mohammad Ali Taslim; Part III. Case Studies from Africa: 7. South Africa's experience with international trade dispute settlement Gustav Brink; 8. WTO dispute settlement for a middle-income developing country: the situation of Egypt Magda Shahin; 9. Sub-Saharan Africa and WTO dispute settlement: the case of Kenya David Ouma Ochieng and David S. Majanja; Conclusion David Evans and Gregory Shaffer.