International Organizations versus Developing Nations: The Case of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Abstract

<p>This thesis examines the policy evolution of the General Agreement on Tariffs and trade (GATT) with the aim of finding out what policy changes the GATT has effected during 1948-67 to enable the GATT to contrihute more towards economic development in the developing nations.</p> <p>The thesis attempts to evaluate the contrihution of the GATT to ascertain GATT's effectiveness in aiding economic development.</p> <p>It also discusses the motivations that lead developed nations to give aid through the GATT to the developing nations.</p>