The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally …

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions … towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the … new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard evidence on what works and what doesn’t. On the one hand, rigorous …

This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the … the provision of development assistance (‘aid for trade’) to bolster regulatory capacity and enforcement could enhance the …

The Most-Favored Nation clause (MFN) forbids Members of a trade agreement to discriminate between trading partners. It … agreements in the World Trade Organization. There seems to be a rather widespread belief among policy makers that there are …

As each new round of multilateral trade negotiations approaches, there is a demand for a negotiating rule that would …