Abstract
The Declaration of the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Singapore in December 1996 stated in paragraph 20:
‘… we also agree to:
… establish a working group to study issues raised by Members relating to the interaction between trade and competition policy, including anti-competitive practices, in order to identify any areas that may merit further consideration in the WTO framework.
In the conduct of the work of the working group[s], we encourage cooperation … to make the best use of available resources and to ensure that the development dimension is taken fully into account … It is clearly understood that future negotiations, if any, regarding multilateral disciplines in these areas, will take place only after an explicit consensus decision is taken among WTO Members regarding such negotiations.1
This chapter was originally published by the South Centre, Geneva, as Working Paper 7, November 1999.
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Singh, A., Dhumale, R. (2001). Competition Policy, Development, and Developing Countries. In: Arestis, P., Baddeley, M., McCombie, J. (eds) What Global Economic Crisis?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333992746_7
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