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L'Afrique face à l'OMC

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  • Jacques Fontanel

    (CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble)

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The WTO promotes the globalization of markets and the unhindered development of international trade. Its members benefit from the Most-Favoured-Nation Clause. Within the framework of neoclassical economics, competition leads to the economic optimum. However, African countries contest this policy, considering that the major powers and multinational firms value the least equitable rules of the market economy, between competitors with very unequal economic and strategic weight The democratic nature of the WTO is criticized, the demands of developing countries are neglected, especially in the areas of agriculture (especially cotton and US subsidies to their producers), industrial property and public health. A mobilization is beginning to develop so that the WTO does not primarily benefit the private sector to the detriment of public services, and the wealthy countries to the detriment of African productions.

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  • Jacques Fontanel, 2007. "L'Afrique face à l'OMC," Post-Print hal-02950058, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02950058
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    WTO; cotton; Africa; Afrique; OMC; coton;
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