The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application … and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of … academic experts considers the agenda and areas of interest for the next Round in light of Seattle, the functions of the WTO …

1. The World Trade Organization and the international political economy -- 2. Institutional development of the WTO -- 3 …Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks at Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade … Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …

Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on … across developed and developing countries and proposals made in the agricultural negotiation regarding market access, export …

Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core … countries as well as by the United States, and of the GATT/WTO system itself as a template for economic policy. Scholars and … students interested in how the GATT/WTO works as a policy making system will find this collection revealing as will readers …

-changing global economic environment, particularly during the WTO era and the ongoing Doha Round. Professor Das explores how the … creation of the multilateral trade regime, or the GATT/WTO system, has been fraught with difficulties. He describes the ways …

The seemingly endless problems encountered by the IMF, WTO and World Bank provide major reasons for seeking reform … narrower focus in the mission of the World Bank and the IMF. In the case of the WTO, they call for a democratic reform of the …. However, an additional impetus is the changing balance of economic power in the world. The volume begins with an overview of …

competition in globalizing markets. The authors discuss multi-national approaches to competition policy in the WTO, European Union …