ABSTRACT
One of the key challenges that UNCTAD has faced in recent years
has been its continuing raison d’etre in a world trading regime domi-
nated and supervised by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Indeed, the existence of the WTO has in the past been used to argue
for the disbandment of UNCTAD-and the North periodically raises
this specter if and when UNCTAD challenges its favored positions on
global trading negotiations and arrangements.
