Trade Policy Note Final-rev08 - Development

Table of Contents
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I. Aims and objectives...........................................................................................8
Background concepts, past and current debates 8
The case and options for widening the policy space 8
Effective design and implementation 9
Coverage 9
II. Policy Space for Future National Development Strategies ..........................10
Theoretical Context 10
The Expanded Reach of International Trade Obligations 11
FTAs are More Constraining 13
Development Strategies and Trade Negotiations 13
Preparing a Strategy 14
The WTO Multilateral Negotiations and the MDGs 15
III.
Tariffs and Industrial Policy...........................................................................19
Tariff Liberalization and Bindings 20
Tariff Policy and Industrialization Strategy 22
Services and Industrial Policy 25
Subsidies 26
IV. Exports and Poverty........................................................................................27
Export Growth and the MDGs 27
Increase Productivity 29
Promote equity 29
Ensure sustainability 30
Elements of a Comprehensive pro-Poor Export Strategy 30
Access to Export Markets 31
V. Agriculture and Food Security.......................................................................32
Complex Multilateral Regime 32
Further Agricultural Liberalization 34
Liberalization and Food Security 36
Gender and Agricultural Trade 39
VI. Trade in Services and Development Strategies.............................................40
Services and the MDGs 40
Universal Access to Services 40
Services and Competitiveness 41
Negotiations on Trade in Services 41
A Strong Regulatory Framework is Required 42
Investment Policy is Central to Trade Negotiations on Services 43
VII. Investment, Jobs for Youth and Access to Technologies ..............................43
International Commitments on Investment Policy 43
Investment performance requirements: a tool for development 44