Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper uses 67 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade … policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly correlated with GATT/WTO membership. Trade liberalizations, when … they occur, usually lag GATT entry by many years, and the GATT/WTO often admits countries that are closed and remain closed …