nigerian newspapers

• How to Get the Best Out of the Wto and How to Avoid the Pitfalls: New Publications Point the Way

Books on the WTO have been rolling off the presses around the globe this past year, the organization's tenth anniversary, as any Internet search will show. Some are critical, some anecdotal and some impenetrably analytical. Few provide the insight on practical experience in negotiating entry and on drawing maximum advantage from membership that developing country diplomats and negotiators, business groups, individual firms, civil society bodies and even academics and specialist journalists often say they need. The studies show, the editors say, that joining the WTO and taking advantage of WTO membership is not something that can be left to governments alone. Success, as these and other cases show, is best guaranteed by involving all stakeholders in a single economy. Developing countries...

...'s ill-fated effort to join the WTO; and Nigerian industry's struggle to remove import restrictions ... threatening - if the island's lively newspapers and radio stations had not seized on the issue. Th...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 1/2006, Janvier 2006