The Dispute Settlement System (DSS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a mechanism to settle international trade …

Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade … policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices … preconditions for implementing “selective” (targeted) trade and industrial policies. Yet more, he discusses the implications of the …

quota retaliation games. In supermodular games where tariffs are strategic complements, the steady state of every, symmetric …. Instead of the well-known non-equivalence between tariff and quota retaliation outcomes under complete myopia, in some … circumstances, free trade can be supported in the steady state of a Markov perfect equilibrium, regardless of whether policies …

national reform process; (ii) international trade arrangements and (iii) international financial stability. Our main finding is …. In the area of trade, gains from WTO accession were dwarfed by the impact of the opening of the EU trading block for … reason why CIS countries which got neither the EU accession perspective, nor even trade liberalization offer on the EU lag …

’s international trade within the context of Africa-EU partnerships agreements. The review of literatures shows that RoO are an … important element in determining the final benefit associated with the bilateral trade relationship under preferential trade … agreements. It notes that Africa-EU bilateral trade relations dates back to the Lome Conventions that gave preferential entry …

Trading blocks can help or hinder the liberalization of world trade. A determining factor is whether trade within the … block is organized around traditional comparative advantages, or around economies of scale. Regional free trade agreements … such as NAFTA can be a substitutes for global free trade when they are based on traditional comparative advantages; then …

Abstract The author argues in this chapter that trade liberalization in Africa during the last couple of decades has … led to de-industrialization, slow growth of GDP, low level of investment, growing trade deficits, particularly in food … trade liberalization in low-income countries in recent decades, he further refers to pitfalls in negotiations on NAMA in WTO …