Self-Enforcing Trade - 9780815703235

Self-Enforcing TradeDeveloping Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement\nAuthor(s): Chad P. Bown\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815703235, 978-0815703235\nSynopsis\nThe World Trade Organization?backbone of today's international commercial relations?requires member countries to self-enforce exporters' access to foreign markets. Its dispute settlement system is the crown jewel of the international trading system, but its benefits still fall disproportionately to wealthy nations. Could the system be doing more on behalf of developing countries? In Self-Enforcing Trade, Chad P. Bown explains why the answer is an emphatic \""\""yes.\""\""\nBown argues that as poor countries look to the benefits promised by globalization as part of their overall development strategy, they increasingly require access to the WTO dispute settlement process to protect their trading interests. Unfortunately, the practical realities o.