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Critically examine the various controversial issues in the functioning of the World Trade Organization from the point of view of developing countries, particularly India.

  • UPSC 1999
  • India and the Global South

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The question was set in the year the Seattle Ministerial (1999) collapsed amid street protests and developing members' complaints of exclusion. Stephen D. Krasner (Structural Conflict, 1985) had already argued that the South wants rules that allocate outcomes while the North wants rules that free markets. Each of the WTO's controversies fits that pattern, and…

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