Recent Publications and Resources

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Textiles Trade and Developing Countries

2001 The system of import quotas that dominated textiles trade since the early 1960s is being phased out. Developing countries that rely on export of textiles and apparel are frustrated with delays in lifting of quotas ...
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Doha Development Agenda: Overview of Negotiations and Work Program

2001 The ministerial declaration issued at the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001 launched a new round of negotiations that will include services, agriculture, industrial tariffs, environmental issues, intellectual property, dispute settlement, and WTO rules. The declaration ...
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Reform of the WTO: Basic Issues and Concerns

2000 A brief examination of the issues of transparency and decision making in the WTO ...
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Building National Core WTO Expertise

Without core WTO expertise a country cannot participate effectively in the multilateral trade system (MTS). But what does effective participation mean? On the one hand, it means taking advantage of the benefits MTS affords, such as increased access to markets ...
An Economic Programme for Korean Reconstruction, 1954

An Economic Programme for Korean Reconstruction, 1954

Satisfactory solutions of Korea’s manifold problems come into proper and reasonable focus only when these problems are examined in the perspective of a comprehensive reconstruction plan. This Report presents such a plan (p. viii). In 1952, Robert R. Nathan Associates ...
Economic and Engineering Development of Burma, 1953

Economic and Engineering Development of Burma, 1953

In August 1951, the American engineering firm Knappen Tippets Abbett teamed with Robert R. Nathan Associates to produce an economic and engineering development program for the government of the Union of Burma. The program, finalized in 1953, was one of ...