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 …-based negotiations on trade rules, and perhaps, sectoral market access agreements. -- GATT/WTO ; negotiations ; decision-making …

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 …

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 …

policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building productive capacity; and trade-related adjustment. The WTO … WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their …

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment …. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process … from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat, governments as well as the question and answer sessions were examined …

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

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … at which countries have committed at the WTO is sufficient to diminish trade policy volatility is an empirical question …

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 …

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 …

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