The Singapore issues in cancún: A failed negotiation ploy or a litmus test for global governance?

Intereconomics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 249-255

  Woolcock, Stephen ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84901149734     PISSN: 00205346     EISSN: 1613964X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03031726     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. For a recent discussion of the four Singapore issues see The Federal Trust: Expanding World Trade Rules? Should there be rules on competition, investment, trade facilitation and government procurement?, 2003.
2. www.fedtrust.com.
3. See Leon Brittan: "Smoothing the Path for Investment Worldwide", speech in Washington, January 1995.
4. See Stephen Woolcock: Investment in the World Trade Organisation, in: Klaus Deutsch (ed.): The European Union in the Millenium Round, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
5. Due to opposition from India and Brazil the investment provisions in the Uruguay Round were modest and took the form of Trade Related Investment Measures or TRIMs. Investment was, however, included in the GATS agreement.
6. Doha Ministerial Declaration, World Trade Organisation, WT/MIN(01)/ DEC/I.
7. See Experience gained so far on international cooperation on competition policies issues and the mechanisms used, Report for the UNCTAD Secretariat, UNCTAD TD/B/COM.2?CLP/21/Rev1 12.
8. See for example WTO Report of the Working Group on the Interaction Between Trade and Competition Policy to the General Council, W-I/WGTCP/6 2002.
9. See OECD: Draft Report on the nature and impact of hard-core cartels and the sanctions under national competition laws, Paper for the Global Competition Forum, 2001 CCNM/GF/COMP(2001)3, October 2, 2001.
10. M. Levenstein: Private cartels and their effects on developing countries, Background Report for the World Development Report 2001.