Are WTO rules preventing development?
This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) briefing paper argues that developing countries need policy space to use policy to promote development, but current international rules limit it. The paper indicates that: a) developing countries need policy space to use policy to promote development, but international rules limit it; b) the principal areas where trade agreements do or may restrict countries are tariffs, TRIPs, and investment; c) the evidence is that while some space has been closed, much remains, and space can cause problems as well as create opportunities. http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/briefing/bp_jan07_policy_space_wto.pdf Global Employment Trends Brief Strong global GDP growth in 2006 led to a stabilization of labour markets worldwide, with more people in work1 than in 2005. At the same time the total of 195.2 million unemployed was slightly higher than a year earlier, an all time high. The Global Employment Trends 2007 published by the International Labour Organizatio
