as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …

With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …

This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and … range of countries. The negotiations faced a need for balance between discipline in reducing tariffs and hence creating the … market access gains that are central to the negotiations, and flexibility in managing political pressures. While the approach …

to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

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

Critical appraisals of the current and potential benefits from developing country engagement in the World Trade … Organization (WTO) focus mainly on the Doha Round of negotiations. This paper examines developing country participation in the WTO …

This paper uses detailed data on bound and applied tariffs to assess the consequences of the World Trade Organization …

Many trade negotiations involve large cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities allowing much smaller cuts for an agreed …-product provisions for average agricultural tariffs, economic welfare, and market access under the Doha negotiations. The authors …

Contrary to the prevailing view that the Doha negotiations have achieved little, the authors find that on trade … with their comparative advantages. As to how the international community can best support continued progress, the authors … whole, this is the approach the WTO has taken, for example, by limiting its negotiations on trade facilitation to several …