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The WTO has evolved into a World Trade and Sustainable Development Organization and many issues now on its agenda are far from traditional trade policy matters. Some have already proven to be particularly controversial and there is much more controversy to come.

"The WTO simply cannot ignore the need to promote and preserve the environment. The priority must be to re-balance the international trade system in favour of developing countries. [This book] is a crucial first step in identifying and exploring the issues that fall under the umbrellas of sustainable development and the expanded agenda of trade policy. A crucial question is whether a clearer mission for the WTO in support of sustainable development implies major institutional reforms. I do not think so. To surmount the difficulties confronting the WTO, it must adapt. But the fundamental objective of the WTO has to remain the construction of fair trade rules to guarantee better, more long-lasting, more predictable and more transparent trade opening."

From the Foreword by Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General and former European Union Commissioner for Trade (19992004)

"Professor Gary Sampson identifies an inventory of policy issues that fall within the overlap between trade and sustainable development, and analyses the implications of this overlap. He also presents policy options that are both ambitious and realistic, the pursuit of which could contribute to more coherent and mutually supportive action on the part of governments to both trade and sustainable development. This book is a useful contribution to the literature and should be of interest to a large part of the international community, including government officials, academics, the business community, and both intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations."

Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, UNCTAD Secretary-General and former WTO Director General (20022005)

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Contact: Terry Collins
terrycollins@rogers.com
United Nations University
5-Oct-2005

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