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 …

-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 …

This book investigates the contributions of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to policymaking at the WTO … WTO member states, this book advances understandings of the parameters of NGO agency in global governance. …

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 …

: globalisation and political economy of trade; trade, labour standards and economic crisis; the changing role of the WTO; competition … policy and the WTO; choice of formulas for market access negotiations; regionalism and bilateralism in ASEAN; ANZUS free …Pt. 1. Political economy -- pt. 2. WTO issues and trade negotiations -- pt. 3. Regional integration -- pt. 4. Trade and …