ambitious expectations. For example, on average across all WTO Members, only one-third of all services sectors have been …

. The paper assembles detailed information about the IP provisions contained in active RTAs notified to the WTO. The goal … was to expand beyond the more commonly studied RTAs, to review the full array of agreements notified to the WTO and thus …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent … developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its … central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we identify key unresolved issues. …

There are essentially two types of plurilateral trade agreements (PAs) among WTO Members, an exclusive and an open … discussions. This article takes a sceptical view, since any such PA would need to be agreed by consensus among all 160-odd WTO … treaty frameworks, as "WTO-extra" understandings. …

on Trade and Environment (CTE) mandated the WTO Secretariat to compile and collate all environment-related measures … notified to WTO. The database also includes environment-related entries found in Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs). This information …In order to ensure transparency and to keep abreast of trade policies in support of sustainability, the WTO Committee …

Organization (WTO). With the aim of stimulating discussion, this paper asks the question of how trade, and WTO rules, can … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO … environment for the achievement of the post-2015 development agenda; the role that trade, and trade policy, can play in meeting …

Organization (WTO). With the aim of stimulating discussion, this paper asks the question of how trade, and WTO rules, can … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO … environment for the achievement of the post-2015 development agenda; the role that trade, and trade policy, can play in meeting …

framework that affects the regulation of every WTO Member's financial sector. However, except for a limited number of country …-specific case studies, no attempt has been made to compare WTO commitments to open the domestic banking sector to foreign banks with … devoted to systematically and comprehensively assess the degree to which WTO Members discriminate against foreign bank. This …