Replication data for: Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement

Less clear are the reasons for this. Most observers insist that the various GATT reforms that were intended to help developing countries failed to insulate them from the “power politics” of the system (Kuruvila, 1997).

Not surprisingly, many of these same observers predict that the greater “legalism” of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), in particular, will encourage more participation by developing countries. Indeed, some go so far as to suggest that, enticed by a system in which, unlike in the GATT years, “right perseveres over might” (Lacarte-Muro and Gappah, 2000, 401), developing countries will have greater recourse to multilateral dispute settlement.