new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade … examines why these issues are becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they …

clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) creation in 1995, it is …, with many questioning what can feasibly be accomplished at the WTO in the near to medium term. A 2006 EC decision to …-polar WTO; recognition of the fact that the principal liberalising accomplishment to date of the multilateral trading system has …

This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple bargaining model of … number of systemic questions that confront WTO members. A key question is whether the WTO should concentrate primarily on …

: 1) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); 2) the … indicate that OECD membership (but neither GATT/WTO nor IMF membership) has had a consistently large positive effect on trade. …

We use 6-digit bilateral trade data to document the effect of WTO/GATT membership on the extensive and intensive … equations are motivated by the model of Eaton and Kortum (2002). The data show that the puzzle of no significant impact of WTO … impact of the WTO is almost exclusively on the extensive product margin of trade, i.e. trade in goods that were not …

Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from …