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Trade and development The WTO Agreements recognize the link between trade and development. More than two thirds of WTO Members are developing countries. At the Doha Ministerial Conference, in November 2001, Trade Ministers launched the Doha Development Agenda. With this Agenda, WTO Members have placed development issues and the interests of developing countries at the heart of the WTO’s work. In the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration the central importance of the development dimension of the Doha Work Programme was emphasized and there was a recommitment to making it a meaningful reality. At the same time, the Aid for Trade Initiative was launched, designed to help developing countries build supply-side capacity in order to expand trade. See
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WTO bodies back to top WTO work related to trade and development takes place mostly in the Committee on Trade and Development and the Sub-Committee on Least-Developed Countries. Since the launching of the Doha Round in November 2001, trade and development issues related to special and differential treatment are being negotiated in the CTD meeting in Special Session. Other bodies dealing with development issues and established at the Doha Ministerial Conference include the Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance, and the Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology. At Doha Ministers also launched the Work Programme on Small Economies. Other WTO bodies also consider trade and development issues. In addition, a number of WTO activities focus on developing countries in the context of building trade capacity.
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Building trade capacity back to top Describes the efforts made by WTO to meet the special needs of developing countries.
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Other developmental issues in the WTO back to top
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