impact follows from erosion of EU preferences. This suggests the erosion problem is primarily bilateral rather than a WTO …

WTO. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from … relevance of the WTO for developing countries. Bolstering WTO mechanisms to monitor the actions of both developing and high …

which might inform a WTO-based effort to identify options for international cooperation. …

This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple bargaining model of … number of systemic questions that confront WTO members. A key question is whether the WTO should concentrate primarily on …

of the Doha Round interact with domestic political factors in leading WTO members, the fast growth of exports prior to …. Recent emphasis on differences between developing countries and on Chinese WTO accession as independent causes of the impasse …

system have increased. Several trends are taking public policies further away from the core WTO disciplines of non … stalled Doha Round negotiation where differentiation among WTO members has become a key source of discord. We identify and … advocates of the developing country position at the WTO. Third, in view of the deadlock at the WTO, the US and EU, and other …

first develop a realistic ‘baseline’ that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the …

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services … for the WTO; (iv) standard political economy factors such as adjustment costs and resistance by incumbents to erosion of … rents; and (v) concerns that the WTO will affect the ability of regulators to enforce national norms. We argue that all of …