Making Global Trade Work for People
  Lead Author:
  Kamal Malhotra, Senior Advisor on Inclusive Globalization in UNDP ’s Bureau for Development Policy.

  Trade has enormous potential to contribute to human development. Nevertheless, the current system has fallen far short of expectations thus far and its many inequities are at the core of continuing controversies surrounding economic globalization

Making Global Trade Work for People presents a far-reaching reassessment of the current multilateral trade regime and examines how it can be improved in order to contribute genuinely to human development.

This timely book addresses a range of critical questions: Do trading arrangements--current and proposed--maximize the possibilities of development? Can a developing country's autonomy be preserved while respecting the legitimate objectives of advanced industrial countries to maintain high labour, social and environmental standards at home? Would such a regime be human development friendly? This far-reaching reassessment of the current multilateral trade regime looks in detail at the way it has worked under the WTO, tracing its origins from the GATT and analyzes how it can be improved for it to genuinely contribute to human development.

This ground-breaking book was prepared by an international team of experts and co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Asiaing, and Wallace Global Fund. 

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