Are Developing Countries Deterred from Using the WTO Dispute Settlement System?
In a new ECIPE paper, the former Deputy Director General of the WTO, Roderick Abbott, presents new analysis on the participation of developing countries in WTOs dispute settlement mechanism. Abbott finds that around 80-90 developing countries have had no dispute participation at all and discusses the reasons for that passive attitude. Abbott concludes that there seems to be little in the WTO system in itself that needs correcting; it is rather problems of internal governance in developing countries, and a choice in favour of a bilateral approach, that explains their relative absence in dispute settlement. Click here to get the file Size 48.
