as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

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

barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

WTO-based concern …

conclude in favor of a cautious approach to the imposition of new WTO obligations in the area of trade facilitation. On the … whole, this is the approach the WTO has taken, for example, by limiting its negotiations on trade facilitation to several … specific provisions of the GATT. The WTO can continue to function as a catalyst for reform. It is perhaps uniquely placed to …

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of … preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried … growing economics literature on international trade agreements and argues on this basis that the WTO is not pass?. Rather, and …

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 …