WTO總坤事推米正在斯亞貝巴年夜壆的演講 - 英語演講

編者按：帕斯卡尒·拉米（Pascal Lamy）师长教师於年9月正式到任世界貿易組織（WTO）總坤事一職。正在此之前，推米师长教师短时间擔任“Notre Europe“的主席，這是一個關於歐洲一體化的军师團。他還擔任了巴黎政治壆院副教学，和歐洲社會黨主席波尒·僧魯普·拉斯穆森的顧問。

世貿組織總乾事拉米

在埃及亞的斯亞貝巴年夜壆的演講

Speech at the University of Addis Ababa

WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy

11 May 2012

Excellencies,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am very pleased to be here with you today at this prestigious University of Addis Ababa. What better venue to discuss petitiveness in Africa — the topic of my lecture today — than a university, a place full of petitive and creative spirit of thousands of students. The presentation of the WEF's African petitiveness Report a few days ago here in Addis is an ideal platform to reflect further on the linkages between trade, growth and petitiveness, and to discuss how countries can take advantage of the Multilateral Trading System, and especially the WTO accession process, to enhance petitiveness.

Hence, my remarks today will cover:

first, the benefits of WTO membership in economic policy making;

second, the perspectives on petitiveness in Africa; and,

finally, WTO accession as a tool to enhance petitiveness through domestic reforms.

WTO Membership

The role that trade can play as an engine for growth and development has long been recognized. By creating a petitive business environment, trade opening fosters the efficient allocation of economic resources, enhances output and productivity, and, increases overall welfare gains，韓文翻譯. The lessons of history are clear: when severe impediments to trade — both international and domestic — exist, economic growth is hampered，美加翻譯. Thus, it is the more open, export-oriented economies that have generally succeeded in their development efforts, although this is not a formula. Trade policy is not a stand-alone policy and requires plementary policies.

Governments pursue WTO membership for a variety of reasons:

First, at a “macro” level, WTO membership lends added credibility to government policies and sends clear signals to investors about a country's mitment to an open economy. The implementation of WTO rules is, in this sense, synonymous with the acceptance of a set of internationally-recognized best practices. In turn, this encourages the inflow of foreign investment and technological know-how.

Second, at the “micro” level, domestic businesses stand to benefit a great deal from the establishment of a transparent and predictable trade environment, which results from the conclusion of every WTO accession process. In fact, at its core，聽打, the framework of WTO rules is aimed at improving the business environment for foreign and domestic private sector operators. For instance, for Ethiopia and many other African countries, the principal benefits of WTO membership stem, inter alia, from the adoption and application of WTO trade rules. Furthermore, also in the case of Ethiopia, export-oriented operators are likely to benefit directly from guaranteed and enhanced access to the markets of all WTO Members on an MFN basis, without the uncertainty of preferences.