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Understanding The Wto

The WTO provides technical cooperation to help developing countries operate successfully in the multilateral trading system. This includes training, seminars, and workshops on trade policy held in Geneva and other countries. Around 500 such activities are organized annually, with an emphasis on African countries. Funding comes from the WTO's budget, voluntary member contributions, and cost-sharing. The budget for technical cooperation and training is 7 million Swiss francs annually, with an additional 24 million francs in voluntary contributions. The WTO also established a network of 140 reference centers in developing countries to provide access to WTO information and documents.

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Understanding The Wto

The WTO provides technical cooperation to help developing countries operate successfully in the multilateral trading system. This includes training, seminars, and workshops on trade policy held in Geneva and other countries. Around 500 such activities are organized annually, with an emphasis on African countries. Funding comes from the WTO's budget, voluntary member contributions, and cost-sharing. The budget for technical cooperation and training is 7 million Swiss francs annually, with an additional 24 million francs in voluntary contributions. The WTO also established a network of 140 reference centers in developing countries to provide access to WTO information and documents.

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UNDERSTANDING THE WTO: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

WTO technical cooperation

Technical cooperation is an area of WTO work that is devoted almost entirely to helping developing countries (and countries in transition from centrally-planned economies) operate successfully in the multilateral trading system. The objective is to help build the necessary institutions and to train officials. The subjects covered deal both with trade policies and with effective negotiation.

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Training, seminars and workshops


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Understanding the WTO Basics Agreements Settling disputes Cross-cutting and new issues
The Doha agenda

The WTO holds regular training sessions on trade policy in Geneva. In addition, it organizes about 500 technical cooperation activities annually, including seminars and workshops in various countries and courses in Geneva. Targeted are developing countries and countries in transition from former socialist or communist systems, with a special emphasis on African countries. Seminars have also been organized in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Middle East and Pacific. Funding for technical cooperation and training comes from three sources: the WTOs regular budget, voluntary contributions from WTO members, and cost-sharing either by countries involved in an event or by international organizations. The present regular WTO budget for technical cooperation and training is 7 million Swiss francs. Extra contributions by member countries go into trust funds administered by the WTO Secretariat or the donor country. In 2004, contributions to trust funds totalled 24 million Swiss francs. A WTO Reference Centre programme was initiated in 1997 with the objective of creating a network of computerized information centres in least-developed and developing countries. The centres provide access to WTO information and documents through a print library, a CD-ROM collection and through the Internet to WTO websites and databases. The centres are located mainly in trade ministries and in the headquarters of regional coordination organizations. There are currently 140 reference centres.

Developing countries
Overview Committees WTO technical cooperation Some issues raised

The organization
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