Development, Trade and the WTO

This handbook offers a detailed and extensive overview of what constitutes sound trade policy. It also provides a shorter review of the world trade system that includes trade in services. Other sections of the book focus on key issues in merchandise trading, intellectual property rights and new "behind-the-border" topics. It closes with a discussion of crosscutting questions of particular interest to developing countries. This handbook offers a broad perspective on what developing countries need to consider in their various trade relationships.