The book, the first of its kind published in Bangla, contains 12 selective articles written under a CPD research project entitled 'Trade policies of WTO and Bangladesh'.

The articles include 'July Package 2004: Bangladesh Perspective' and Non-agricultural Market Access (NAMA).

In these articles, the CPD researchers analysed different issues of the WTO from the economic development perspective of Bangladesh.

"We have tried to make the book readable and avoid technical words," said Prof Mustafizur Rahman, research director of the CPD, at the launching of the book at its office in Dhaka.

The people are now more interested in different WTO issues than they were four to five years ago, he said, adding that the book will help them understand difficult issues in a simple way.

Research fellows Dr Ananya Raihan and Uttam Dev were present at the function.

Uttam Dev said one of the objectives of this CPD publication is to make trade policy discussion popular among the common people.

The book is not merely a Bangla translation of different articles. Rather, some articles were written exclusively for it, he added.