World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …

contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …

Barber B. Conable, President of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation addressed the topic of the … importance to development of trade and the need for a full role for developing countries in the negotiations. The latest general …, while their imports fell by 6.5 percent in value terms. New GATT negotiations must be launched to help create a more certain …

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China …

At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of … negotiations on disciplines relating to competition based on explicit consensus on modalities to be agreed at the fifth WTO …

down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …

subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …