. The World Trade Organization's Hong Kong Ministerial had set out ambitious goals for services but the analysis here shows … that much remains to be done to achieve them. "--World Bank web site …

"There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of … just the WTO but other multilateral institutions; and (v) despite shifts in economic power across countries, the …

; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the trade problems of least developed countries. WTO Members have offered … actual gain. "--World Bank web site …

barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … studies), Indonesia, Mexico, Mozambique, the Philippines, Russia, and Zambia. The diversity of approaches taken in these …

"The benefits of services trade reform are huge but services negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are … rather than a set of goals that would give direction and momentum to the negotiations. The paper suggests that WTO members … to fulfill specific services contracts. A deeper problem is that WTO members have sought to negotiate market access in …

adjustment costs. "--World Bank web site …

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Zambian children. The impacts, however, are relatively small. "--World Bank web site …

"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from … multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact … first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …