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 …

manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO …

WTO in promoting and legitimizing the rules-based multilateral trading system rests, to a large extent, on maintaining … effective relations with civil society, including non-governmental organisations. This paper provides an overview of the WTO …. Second, it deals with how the WTO engages with civil society and illustrates how this has evolved over time. Third, it looks …

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to 2011 at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …

of export market entry is sunk. While an explicit purpose of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to secure long term … market access, little theoretical and empirical work analyzes the value of WTO institutions for reducing uncertainty for … eliminate uncertainty such as binding trade policy commitments at the WTO can increase entry even when applied protection is …

The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset … of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are … actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to accede to the GPA in their respective WTO accession protocols or are, on …

addition to the earlier work done on these topics in the WTO Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition …

Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994 and the creation of the WTO in 1995, the functioning of the … few important initiatives on transparency and decision-making, most contributions on the functioning of the WTO have been … made by external observers of the WTO. However, over the past two years, an increasing number of Members have showed …

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the effects of WTO accession on policy-making and institutional reforms in … WTO. We start by examining the effect of accession on trade policy and distinguish between the effects of accession … and macroeconomic management. We find that no precise blueprint of accession conditions can be ascertained, that WTO …

Decision making in the WTO has become ever more difficult as the number of members increases and the range of issues … under certain conditions, as it would: i) allow for the emergence of a more progressive and responsive WTO agenda; ii) blunt …