A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

The beleaguered progress of the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) presents something of a …>) model of trade negotiations to shows that the combination of the WTO single-undertaking and consensus decision … WTO negotiations is a reversion to PTA negotiations between all parties. Accordingly, spoke countries with relatively less …

than commitments made at the WTO. Strong explanatory variables are asymmetries between negotiating partners and market size …

then raises the question why no agreement could be reached in the WTO to launch negotiations on competition law. In this … Paper we review what was on the table in the WTO and discuss the lessons that are suggested by the seven-year effort in the … WTO to develop a negotiating/cooperation agenda. We argue that the process was a productive one, as it helped identify …

access opportunities and WTO disciplines are briefly summarized. Some of these reflect good intentions towards developing …

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services … for the WTO; (iv) standard political economy factors such as adjustment costs and resistance by incumbents to erosion of … rents; and (v) concerns that the WTO will affect the ability of regulators to enforce national norms. We argue that all of …