Competition Policy, Developing Countries, and the World Trade Organization [electronic resource] Hoekman, Bernard

Author/Creator:

Hoekman, Bernard

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World Bank working papers.

Publication:

Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1999

Series:

Policy research working papers.
World Bank e-Library.

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Government document
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Summary:

October 1999 - Developing countries have a great interest in pursuing active domestic competition policy but should do so independent of the World Trade Organization - which they should use to improve market access through further reduction in direct barriers to trade in goods and services. Hoekman and Holmes discuss developing country interests in including competition law disciplines in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Developing countries have a great interest in pursuing active domestic competition policy, they conclude, but should do so independent of the WTO. Given the mercantilist basis of multilateral trade negotiations, the WTO is less likely to be a powerful instrument for encouraging adoption of welfare-enhancing competition rules than it is to be a forum for abolishing cross-border measures. Developing countries should therefore give priority to using the WTO to improve market access - to further reduce direct barriers to trade in goods and services. This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to analyze issues that may be the subject of WTO negotiations. The authors may be contacted at bhoekman@worldbank.org or p.holmes@sussex.ac.uk.

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Contributor:

Hoekman, Bernard
Holmes, Peter.
World Bank.

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Print version: Hoekman, Bernard. Competition Policy, Developing Countries, and the World Trade Organization.

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10.1596/1813-9450-2211

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