Post-Uruguay Round Trade Negotiations: A Developing Country Perspective

I feel greatly honoured at being invited to deliver this year's Kale Memorial Lecture. The choice of the subject of my lecture today, let me confess, has been dictated by several, considerations. Since in a public lecture I could not expect a captive audience of students as in a classroom, I did not want to drive prospective listeners away by speaking on an esoteric topic of little contemporary relevance. In the context of the dramatic disarray with which the Seattle ministerial meet, scheduled to draw up an agenda for post-Uruguay round trade negotiations, has just ended, I could hardly have chosen a more topical subject for my lecture.