Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first … of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …

result and a cause of the lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations. They violate the basic World Trade …

Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal World Trade Organization trade disputes for failing to live up to … this failure. Given the weak incentives to enforce World Trade Organization rules and disciplines against small and poor … members, bolstering the transparency function of the World Trade Organization is important for making trade agreements more …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international trade. While such trade remedies are also …

investment inflows and inflows per capita, the Doing Business 2013 Enforcing Contracts data, the World Bank Group's Governance … Indicators, the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Indicators, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency …'s World Investment and Political Risk data. The paper concludes by identifying several opportunities for improvement, such as …