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 …

: 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. …

The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no …

estimate disaggregate export elasticities and find evidence that countries that are not members of the World Trade Organization …

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defence in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against … internal taxation under the GATT. It is shown that despite severely restricting the freedom to set internal taxes, NT may …

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in … effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex …

states and growing divergence between European powers. In our model, the impact of war on the European state system depends … on: i) the importance of money for determining the war outcome (which stands for the cost of war), and ii) a country … of war. Initially, this caused more internally cohesive states to invest more in state capacity, while other (more …