TY - BOOK ID - 137898792 TI - Trade Preferences and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries AU - Hoekman, Bernard M. AU - Özden, Çaglar PY - 2005 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Economic development. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137898792 AB - Non-reciprocal trade preferences and provisions in the GATT/WTO that allow developing countries greater leeway to retain or use protectionist policies are two of the central planks of so-called special and differential treatment (SDT) for developing countries in the multilateral trading system. This paper surveys the literature on the rationales, institutional features, and economic effectiveness of SDT. A large literature has emerged on SDT in the last 50 years, by both proponents and opponents. We summarize a number of key contributions on the subject, with a special emphasis on the evaluation of the impact of SDT, especially preferential market access. ER -