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 …

Financial reform has been a major concern for China's transitional economy - especially in the realms of banking and … insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during … opportunities. The relationships between the market structure, behavior and performance of China's banking and insurance industries …

skills and investments to diversify exports toward more sophisticated manufactured products, restrictions against them tend … to multiply. These not only impede the export prospects of the developing countries directly affected, but also slow …

. Bewley (ed) (ed.), Advances in Economic Theory: Fifth World Congress, Chapter 9, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 329 …Wilfred J. Ethier (2004), 'Political Externalities, Nondiscrimination and a Multilateral World', Review of … Favored Nation Obligation and Its Exceptions in the WTO/GATT System', International Review of Law and Economics, 16 (1), March …