Technical Assistance Post-Doha: Is There any Hope of Integrating Developing Countries into the Global Trading System?

Abstract

The Doha Development Round evidences the WTO's commitment to bringing developing countries into the global trading system as full participants. Technical assistance is a critical component of that objective, but there remain a number of structural challenges impeding the organizations ability to provide effective assistance. This Essay explores some of those challenges - from the WTO's perspective as well as from that of developing countries - and suggests ways of making technical assistance relevant in the Post-Doha era.