This article discusses the carbon accounting and carbon-labelling schemes being developed to address growing concerns over climate change. Its particular concern is their impact on small stakeholders, especially low-income countries. The popular belief that trade is by definition problematic is...

Developing countries, and especially Least Developed Countries, were promised a WTO 'Development Round' at Doha in 2001. In fact, the Round's agenda became dominated by topics and proposals of little relevance and at times threatening for some groups of developing countries, particularly those...

Interest in Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) is experiencing a revival and Africa has made it a WTO priority. This article reviews the African SDT proposals and puts forward a political economy explanation of the strong focus on it. Small African economies cannot reap gains in the WTO...