"Developing country"is a basic term in global governance,but has become a controver-sial one in the field of international discourse in recent years.Examining the history of the term"developing country"under the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT)is of great value to clarify the origin of the related disputes and to further un-derstand the international discourse competition.Under the GATT,the term"developing country"has gone through three stages:the germination phase through the revision of Article 18 of GATT1947 in the 1950s,the birth phase through the addition of the fourth section of GATT1947 in the 1960s,and the diffusion stage represented by Generalized System of Pref-erences,Special and Differential Treatment and"Graduation Principle"after 1970s.The term"developing country"under GATT is characterized by ambiguity and confusion,which could in part lead to related disputes under the system of World Trade Organization.Western developed countries have injected their own values into the term in this process,while the developing countries have only played very limited role,which provides us with an important lesson for today's international discourse competition.
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发展中国家/关税及贸易总协定/世界贸易组织/GATT/WTO/国际话语竞争
Key words
developing countries/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Or-ganization/GATT WTO international discourse competition
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