Developing Countries in the World Trading System: from GATT, 1947, to the Third Ministerial Meeting of WTO, 1999.

I first describe how concerns about development of less developed countries were reflected in the evolution of the multilateral trading system, from GATT 1947 to the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negociation and the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In this description, I include a discussion of the participation of the developing countries in the GATT as it evolved. I then go on to discuss the emerging issues in the built-in agenda of the Uruguay Round and in a possible future Round of multilateral negociations from the perspective of developing countries.