- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- List of Tables and Figures
- Table of Cases
- List of Cited GATT Panel and Working Party Reports and their Common Abbreviations
- List of Cited WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports, Other Initiated WTO Disputes, and their Common Abbreviations
- Table of Conventions and Treaties
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I DEVELOPMENT AND ITS INSTITUTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW: WHO DECIDES WHAT DEVELOPMENT MEANS?
- 1 The Multiple Meanings of Development
- 2 The Contribution of International Organizations to Development Policy-Making
- II FRAMING DEVELOPMENT AT THE GATT AND WTO
- 3 The Trade and Development Relationship during the GATT Years and the Genesis of the WTO
- 4 “Developing Member” and Least-Developed Country Status at the GATT and WTO: Self-Designation versus the Politics of Accession
- 5 From the Uruguay Round to the Doha Round: Changing Dynamics in Developing Countries’ Participation
- III UNDERSTANDING AND CONTEXTUALIZING WTO DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS
- 6 Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO Agreements: A Legal Analysis
- 7 Invoking Development in Dispute Settlement
- 8 Reconsidering Special and Differential Treatment in the Global Context
- 9 Institutional Processes: What Impact on Developing Members?
- IV RETHINKING THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT RELATIONSHIP AT THE WTO
- 10 The Doha Round: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
- 11 Strategic Challenges to Integrating Development at the WTO
- 12 Towards Development-Oriented Rules at the WTO: Some Proposals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
The Multiple Meanings of Development
The Multiple Meanings of Development
- Chapter:
- (p.15) 1 The Multiple Meanings of Development
- Source:
- Development at the World Trade Organization
- Author(s):
Sonia E. Rolland
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Despite its ubiquitous use in the international legal discourse, the precise meaning of “development” is elusive and has evolved over time. The purpose of this brief theoretical survey is to understand the influences that have driven normative, regulatory and institutional evolutions in the trade and development relationship. At one end of the spectrum, development has been largely equated with GDP growth; this macro-economic perspective has fuelled much of the Washington Consensus and the international organizations associated with it. At the other end of the spectrum, development is seen primarily as a human rights issue. In practice, the evolving blend of development economics and rights-based approaches has changed what we understand to be the substance of development in international and trade law.
Keywords: right to development, sustainable development, rule of law, economics, structuralists, development economics, marxism, legal reform, developmental state, free trade, colonialism, development
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- List of Tables and Figures
- Table of Cases
- List of Cited GATT Panel and Working Party Reports and their Common Abbreviations
- List of Cited WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports, Other Initiated WTO Disputes, and their Common Abbreviations
- Table of Conventions and Treaties
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I DEVELOPMENT AND ITS INSTITUTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW: WHO DECIDES WHAT DEVELOPMENT MEANS?
- 1 The Multiple Meanings of Development
- 2 The Contribution of International Organizations to Development Policy-Making
- II FRAMING DEVELOPMENT AT THE GATT AND WTO
- 3 The Trade and Development Relationship during the GATT Years and the Genesis of the WTO
- 4 “Developing Member” and Least-Developed Country Status at the GATT and WTO: Self-Designation versus the Politics of Accession
- 5 From the Uruguay Round to the Doha Round: Changing Dynamics in Developing Countries’ Participation
- III UNDERSTANDING AND CONTEXTUALIZING WTO DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS
- 6 Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO Agreements: A Legal Analysis
- 7 Invoking Development in Dispute Settlement
- 8 Reconsidering Special and Differential Treatment in the Global Context
- 9 Institutional Processes: What Impact on Developing Members?
- IV RETHINKING THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT RELATIONSHIP AT THE WTO
- 10 The Doha Round: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
- 11 Strategic Challenges to Integrating Development at the WTO
- 12 Towards Development-Oriented Rules at the WTO: Some Proposals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
