Week 32: Trade and Development

This course will address the key policy linkage between trade and development. It will begin by explor-ing the key legal and economic issues arising from the enlarged role and voice of developing countries in trade governance. From there it will explore linkages between trade, growth and development, ad-dress issues of distributive fairness in trade rule-making, and highlight some of the concerns that de-veloping countries have with the special and differential provisions in the WTO and the current status of the work programme in this regard. The negotiating priorities of developing countries in the WTO system and at the PTA level will be touched upon. The issue of aid for trade and its operational pursuit will also be taken up and its linkage with market access opportunities explained.